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Hi, I thought I'd just weigh in.

It's a bit of a polarized response.

Clearly, some people seem to like it, while others not so much.

Yes, I just discovered this community, but I genuinely thought that maybe some people could gain value out of it, and clearly some people have.

And yes, there are affiliate links on SEPARATE pages (like pretty much every other website on the internet) that will help sustain the cost of hosting and the email list, but beyond that there's nothing trickery about it and I don't intend for it to be. I'm not going to sell some useless ebook or a course or throw pop-ups your ways.

I was testing the waters here and seeing if this is a community worth sharing ideas with, but based on this response, I'm not sure.

I don't mind critical feedback about the content, but shooting something down just because you think you're smarter than that or because you're actively looking to shit on someone isn't all that cool.

Either way, I'm sorry if I mislead anyone. I mean that.
I'm aware. The `self` vs `cls` thing is convention. You can call either argument whatever you want.
So are the current ad models. That's why ad networks have heuristics to detect click patterns and time spent on the advertisers page. The former is easy to replicate since it's all done server side anyway. The latter would require a less information dense page with a "read more" link to approximate what's currently done in JS et all. Not a perfect solution by any means, but it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world if the standard and banners were replaced with more tailored solutions like affiliate links (eg blogs about building tools would link to online stores. Blogs about software could link to online bookstores selling books on that software).

At the end of the day if someone wants to promote a product and someone else wants to make money promoting products then there will be an advertisement model that will spring up
Only until you compare the environmental impact of shipping / ton / km to other transport modes - at which point you realise that modern container vessels is by far the most environment friendly transport mode.
That would actually work just as well as full legalization.

Except some people would still take too much of that substance and die, and then the banheads will be at it again.
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What you say is mostly true in the UK and what OP said is mostly true for the USA. The USA gets better immigrants.
Comments that argue in an uncivil and personal way are not allowed on HN, regardless of how wrong someone else is. Please don't post like this here.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13847157 and marked it off-topic.
I agree with a lot of your sentiment. But there's still nothing stopping you from writing ES5 or even ES3 and just ignoring ES6. Thats what we do and it works great for us. And we build extremely high end interactive apps using virtual dom, webgl, etc.
"Your data is completely safe from ... any threat."

How is that possible?
>I think instead the real issue is that we're too bad at educating people in how to properly use the language.

I don't think this is true at all. I think over time it becomes very easy to apologize for the environment we're forced to use, because there is no comparison, we only have JS for the web.

In any decent project, you're going to have hundreds of 3rd party dependencies installed from tons of sources, some of which could freely introduce exploits into popular programs at any time. If any of these break, you're going on a long hunt to track it down, ultimately to be met with authors that aren't responsive or some bug caused by god knows what incompatability.

We're stuck between the ever flowing battle of new language constructs and languages ontop of JS that try to make it 'easier'. JS lacks very important things that devs have found to be necessary, like typings, and even trying to add typings is a huge battle in itself, that again, is ever changing. Just try and google for where you should put your .d.ts files, and you'l get 4 different answers, all from different stages of versions and recommendations.

You can't teach JS. You can only say that things never stay the same, so build things fast and break them quicker. What you consider 'properly' today, is tomorrows bad practice.
"or how that is exacerbated by multiple note rounds" - YES - I too am looking for a clear and concise example of this. The only people that have ever suggested this to us were....VCs and from my reading and rereading of all of our notes, its very unclear as to why this would be some sort of actual surprise/issue.
Are you familiar with Gary Bernhardt's talk "Wat"? (https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat)

I don't think it's that productive to judge a language on the worst features and edge cases that most teams will be able to easily reach consensus on avoiding, as every language will have its bullshit.
"Donald Trump, for example, the man with the most weapons on the planet, says he wants to start winning wars again. What’s so crazy about this is that, so far this century, the United States has won all its wars; everything only started going wrong after victory."
Maybe I hate people on this shitty forum and want to steer them wrong.

PS I don't like Paul Graham and find him to be very far up his own nerdy ummmm ass

PPS

I also want to help people who can see the forest for the trees. People who have enough common sense and well-roundedness will understand what I am saying. They will benefit. Everyone else will turn the other way, which is what I am after.

I want the smart to get smarter and the dumb to get dumber.
> Again, I have been using them for 2 months in a variety of situations and have never come close to losing them.

It probably fits your ears well. It does fit mine well enough when I tried them, but it did not the owner's. Even then I would not be confident enough to use them on a bus when asleep.

> Furthermore, if you don't use them, how do you claim sub-par audio quality?

I don't use them, which has not stopped me from trying them.

>Will those headphones
>• Be completely wireless?
>[...] Your product is not for me. I will not buy it, neither will anyone who does not want ANY wires.

I don't know of in-ear, wireless headphones that have acceptable audio quality. I've read somewhere there are some wireless over/on-ear ones that do, however. But I have never tried anything like that so I can't in good conscience recommend them.

With that said, most people that have told me they can't do without wireless change their mind when I invite them to try the half-broken ATH-M50 headphones I use on the go.

However, I do understand that some people don't care about listening to the details of a song and just having an audible beat and/or metallic voice is enough to satisfy them. There's also even more people with hearing problems. Whatever case it is, although I would recommend you go for a cheaper alternative, if every one of those bullet points is mandatory and worth 230 USD to you, then yes, there's nothing to discuss and stick with the ear pods.
Ask HN: Why Is AI Open Source?
Hi guys,

I don't understand why the reason behind the OpenAI movement. If the benefits and fallouts of AI development is anything like nuclear technology, shouldn't its distribution measures be made in the image of the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty (i.e. controlled distribution of enrichment technology with checks and balances)?

Or is the open-source sentiment out of necessity because research output is difficult to control?
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I firmly believe that the advent of human genetic engineering marks the end of humanity, at least as we know it, and if we had any sense, we'd abolish it right now and and punish any research into it with the most severe penalties possible. We lost our chance with nuclear weapons, we still might have a shot with genetic engineering.

Yes, we can eliminate many classes of disease with genetic engineering. But as you allude, it won't stop there. People will pick and choose external characteristics for their children. The idea that doctors will somehow be able to keep this in check is to ignore history and the huge incentives that are set up here. First, it will be diseases. Then it will be, for instance, the genetic propensity to obesity. Then 'disadvantages', like being too short or a little too dull. Then it will be external traits, like blue eyes or blonde hair. Then it will be mental traits and personality characteristics. And where it will end will be totally inhuman and beyond our present comprehension.

The result will be massive suffering, inequality, and possibly even the extinction of humanity as human genetic diversity is replaced with an ever-accelerating social competition that ends in a monoculture that will probably be ill-suited for survival the same way modern dog breeds often end up unsuited for survival.

Yes, it would be lovely if we could use genetic engineering technology safely and responsibly. We can't. That's to say nothing of the risks inherent in the technology if it became simple and cheap for anyone to use even on non-humans.
Except for the private data part, I found this not very constructive. Too political. IMHO biggest problem with the web itself is snooping, tracking all driving an insane amount of bloat which clogs the internet. Any extra bandwidth or horsepower is immediately sucked and then some up by advertisers and tracking. There's nothing lean and mean about it anymore.

The internet exists as an information resource that people need to be able to sift through themselves, not something that governments or other self selected groups decide to arbitrarily censor for whatever selfish reasons they have.
You can see the full HN furore here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13303436
This one was 8chan, not 4chan. While I'm nothing more than an occasional passive observer of the chan communities, it seems that most of the "talent", so to speak, has left 4chan amidst increasingly strict rules against various forms of tomfoolery.
A number of the older WMs are not entirely dissimilar. Some aren't, though. FVWM for example has a grid rather than flat layout, which I find confusing (you might go left/right, you might go up/down). The boxes generally struck me as pretty good -- Blackbox I think most especially.

KDE comes close to WindowMaker in functionality (I've been watching/using that occasionally since ~1999), but never quite seems to get it right. KDE's windowlist, for example, isn't pinnable, and if you're walking that, you have to re-open, and re-acquire your current working spot, for each window you're traversing. That extra bit of friction rubs me raw every damned time.

The crazy thing about WindowMaker, for me, is how for such a ... not particulalry beautiful* desktop (though I find its asthetics completely acceptable), it's so damned useful. It's either exceptionally well designed ... or I've just got it cold-welded to my muscle memory. I couldn't honestly tell you which.

(Though I think its design is particularly good, with its design stability a major part of that.)
I thought that they would have added more obfuscation after that paper was published. Since the opcode generation and parsing is reset, per pyc file, I expected to see stuff like:

- A rotating opcode table that changes every X opcodes

- Multiple opcodes that referenced the same operation, selected randomly at generation time.
You're ignoring the possibility that cars may emit only tiny amounts of sulphur and nitrogen oxides, compared to ships whose emissions are largely made up of those gases. That would be consistent with both sentences, although I don't know if it's true. EDIT: Looks like that is indeed true, see this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10716251
I think this is a consequence of the fundamental problem with a materialist rationalist view of reality; namely, that when you consider reality to be only physical matter which can broken down into constituent matter and exists as a result of cause and effect, all meaning is stripped from the universe and you're forced to accept the first cause argument.

The real problem comes down to what we mean by "truth". Truth can't simply be the accuracy of our models of the material world, because the material world can't tell us anything about how we should act.
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Well one can wrap a url into a cordova view, then distribute that. not as immediately easy, but can be made a one click self service. I sense there's enough space/demand for a startup there.
It's articles like this that re-enforce my disappointment that Apple is choosing to NOT implement checksums in their new file system, APFS.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11934457
By using the word "ever," you cast this question into historical or even religious proportions.

1000 years ago, the primary frontend toolchains were singleton and handmade: every instance of a piece of data needed to be individually crafted.

500 years ago, the printing press had made significant changes, but frontends were still largely coupled to the available presses and their character sets (let alone niceties like layout and graphics).

100 years ago, frontends still remained tied to their physical layers (ie, it wasn't possible to scrape data and create a new frontend without recreating the entire medium) - ie, books and magazines and newspapers.

20 years ago, javascript was barely known even in programming circles, much less a lingua franca for publishing worldwide.

Today, javascript is the control structure by which the vast majority of data is accessed by human eyes and ears.

In 20 years, something that has already been invented but is today not largely known might well be responsible for most knowledge exchange. It's completely plausible that technologies like AR, crypto-blockchains, and newly legalized psychedelic drugs will be as important as HTTPS is today for transmission purposes, let alone the particularities of the application layer.

100 years from now, it's highly unlikely that the screen-and-keyboard model of data ingestion will be regarded as anything but a historically important link in data evolution, cast away in favor of more tactile, neurochemical, and cybernetic interfaces.

500 years from now, most of the world's governments, media traditions, and spoken dialects of language will have folded and made way for a completely new condition of humanity. Who knows what the frontend will look like.

In a 1000 years, our species might plausibly have no biological footprint (ie, no sensory organs to use for the purposes of distinguishing "frontend" from "backend") whatsoever, and live on as information and knowledge, present in the physical universe only in ways that we can't possible yet imagine.

So yes, the species will someday move away from javascript.
According to police records, a city utility billing and collections manager told detectives that, on the night of Collins's death, 140 gallons of water were used at Bates's home between 1 and 3 a.m., an amount of water usage that exceeded all other periods there since October 2013.

“In comparison, while all four [men] were together earlier that evening, they never used more than 10 gallons of water in an hour,” police reports said. “The amount of water used between 0100-0300 hours was consistent with spraying down the back patio area, which may have resulted in the wet concrete patterns observed on the morning of November 22nd.”

The utility department's source? Each home in Bentonville was on a smart meter, police were told, to measure and record the exact consumption of electricity and water every hour. -Washington Post

The homeowner wasn't the one who died.
Sorry for the delayed reply, HN wasn't letting me comment. You don't seem to understand that Paypal agreed to my 2% chargeback rate, in fact they came up with the $5000 set reserve + 10% rolling reserve in order to let me run. Not once did Paypal tell me I'm at risk of losing my account or getting my funds frozen for 6 months. I have had 0 warnings. The issue here is bigger than that, it's the inconsistency in what they request, it's Paypal requesting information but not letting me provide it, it's Paypal's inner departments not speaking to each other and every time you call in you get different information. When I log into my account it still says it's limited because Paypal needs more information regarding recent sales, but guess what, they don't tell you which information they need or how to provide it. Paypal was aware of my high dispute rate and agreed to work with me based on the reserve they wanted which I accepted. Not once did I receive a warning contrarily to what you may think.
Why do you think I was wrong?
I think the article is wrong to call the showcased devices "netbooks". Netbooks were a laptop-lite, with a slightly smaller size. The Dragonbox Pyra is more like a micro laptop, the size of two big smartphones stacked on top of each other. It's a different size category and that's what makes it interesting.
Shopify doesn't allow Stripe, they force you to use Shopify Payments which I have no interest in using, they set their own rules and guidelines that I do not approve of.
Wikipedia disagrees. "Managed code is computer program source code that requires and will execute only under the management of a Common Language Runtime virtual machine, typically the .NET Framework, or Mono. The term was coined by Microsoft."
Only problem I had with netbooks were the keyboard. My hands are kinda big...
Formulas will only break if you got them wrong, usually if you confused relative and absolute addressing. Or if you perform your own cell address calculations and the cells are no longer where your formula says. I am pretty sure it is almost always not the fault of Excel.
Previously [0], HN and experts criticized SpiderOak for using the term improperly in their marketing. (E2E is not the same as zero-knowledge storage). And now they admit that they knew at the time that it was used improperly.

So, why did they use it?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13301936
I am not trying to brag. I am trying to communicate.

In insurance and legal settings, you are not responsible for "acts of God." Obviously, no one can control everything. But trying to figure out where to draw that line separates the wheat from the chaff, the ordinary businesses from the good ones.

Parenting is where I have substantial experience. And it gets all kinds of push back. It is a subtle form of sexism: My experiences do not count because they are mom experiences. It is kind of like the use of the dismissive term "mommy bloggers." I never hear the term "daddy bloggers."

Einstein said something once like "Talented people solve problems. Geniuses prevent them." A healthy no excuses culture is one where the emphasis is on preventing them. I did that as a parent.

But feel free to give me yet one more BS excuse as to why my point of view and examples are somehow invalid, as if that is clever and nothing I have ever heard before.
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While this was certainly illegal, I think it's hard to say that it was malicious. This has essentially become a (somewhat one-sided) prank war. If they intended to deplatform or suppress Shia, they could have done something much more mean-spirited than photobomb his video streams and snatch his flag.
If my business runs servers out of Canada that Europeans use, what are the enforcement mechanisms for this law?
It's not.

It's probably relatively safe at rest from compromise on the server(s). Endpoint attacks (users' own systems), or some form of targeted client update (e.g., client code that's dropped to individual users), either by SpiderOak or through other means (MITM / cert hijacking) strike me as plausible routes.
> May I ask what makes you think so? Any current indications? What could go otherwise, and why? Do you see the beginning of these trends already?

Basically there are already people quietly working on this, and when those efforts surface it's going to become apparent that it's in everyone's best interests to go along.

Unlike other industries, unionization in tech isn't going to be about negotiating salaries. Those are already good enough, and there is zero incentive for workers to organize around standardized wages.

Instead, tech workers are going to negotiate for things like longer periods to exercise their options after changing employers, and ownership over their side projects. And in exchange, my prediction is that management is going to negotiate for labor to become more self-policing to lower their costs of hiring and risk exposure.
won't hurt to try:

1) wim hof breathing technique

2) contrast showers

3) yoga (especially the 'mayur asana' pose)

4) any 21 day meditation audio series where each meditation is about 10 minutes long (you'll find some on YouTube)
Compare how much of the geneticist scene is struck out at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRpQMW77T_o

At 1 minute in that clip the nurse talks about probability of heart disorder. 99% probability.
How long did it take to get foot complications in your case and how good was your diabetic control? I'm also "late onset" type 1, (diagnosed at 27). But they don't call it LADA. The weird thing is that they could not find any antibodies, but since my C-peptide level was very low at the moment of diagnosis they call it Type 1.
Ot: your flak blog could benefit from a page showing links to all articles. Currently, hard to read beyond 'recent'.
Of course, many do in fact. Despite that, Paypal saw my high-dispute rate and worked out a plan where they will have a set reserve of $5000 + a 10% rolling reserve in order to mitigate risk and work with me. They then called me on 3 separate occasions to ask questions and see how the business was going, not once did they say my dispute rate is too high for them or that I'm at risk of losing my account. They just randomly gave me the hammer one day and use automated emails to circumvent any request I may have. They are inconsistent, rude, lying and simply provide 0 customer service while holding my money simply because their "system" said so!
Right, the parent probably meant lowest ratio. Though that sounds weird in casual conversation.
Does that include health insurance?
Seems to apply to strong encryption.
i wish i could upvote you 100 times.
From context I assume they mean threat levied against the company or data entrusted to it. They should probably change it to "any server-side threat", or just nix that portion entirely. (Nixing it is probably most reasonable, given that they could theoretically push an update that steals secret keys, AFAIK.)
One of the things I don't usually see discussed is the potential risks of this editing.

The editing has errors, but we have the technology to detect those, so it's really only a cost increase.

The more concerning issue for anyone who might want to do this is that AFAIK our understanding of what these edits do is pretty limited, so for things like known diseases it may be worth the risk to choose embryos or make edits, but for things that are more marginal, the risk might not be worth it and this may have a drag on people wanting to use the tech, even when it works great.