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>To me this illustrates a fundamental problem that JS has to deal with that is virtually unique in the programming language space: multiple browsers across multiple browser versions. It is incredibly difficult to get all browsers to adopt a "standard library"

You don't need to. The standard library could just be a community curated project (with the help of major browser vendors) that ships as extra code. It could even be on npm.

If the browser has it included, even better, if not, it's referenced the usual way third party dependencies are.

The problem is having a package.json like:

random lib 1
...
random lib 500

Not having a package.json like:

function 1 of well curated lib X
function 2 of well curated lib X
function 22 of well curated lib Y
...
function 35 of well curated lib Y

where e.g. Y is lodash, or react, and such.

>This is because JS file sizes matter a lot. We have huge libraries like `lodash` which are like a standard library, but nobody wants to use them because they dramatically increase the filesize of the JS bundle. I would rarely want to bring in lodash for a couple utilities, even with treeshaking and the like because it still dramatically increases bundle size. We have pretty excellent datetime libraries that most people hesitate to use -- like moment.js -- because they are huge. So what's the result? A ton of dependencies with very limited scopes because developers do not want to bring in massive libraries that do everything.

That doesn't seem the case either. In major web pages, even from big companies, there are multiple versions of dependencies, even full deps like lodash and co. And people use all kinds of gigantic (web wise) frameworks and third party libs like moment.js with wild abandon.

Besides, even if that was the problem, there's nothing stopping you from having a modular set of libraries (like lodash), that you can cherry pick from the functionality you need and only load that.

The problem the parent mentions is not "JS needs to include big libraries and stop using small dependencies" but JS needs to stop using random small dependencies from here and there.

Using 100 dependencies from all kinds of crappy upstream places (e.g. some crappy leftpad implementation), is different than having a curated set of libraries and loading 100 small dependencies from that.
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This is definitely an issue I encountered as a new dad playing RDR 2. That said, this game is such a landmark achievement, the scale and ambition is largely without precedent, it was still worthwhile persevering for me in small chunks.
I listen to quite a few podcasts, and I'm increasingly annoyed by ads being repeated word for word in each episode.

There are two podcasts that do things a bit differently, which I enjoy more:

* https://risky.biz/ has short-ish interviews with the sponsors that focus not only on the product, but often on the market, insights that the advertiser gained from analytics that their products gather etc.

* https://www.acquired.fm/ has 30s spots where they ask their advertiser one question, which gives the advertiser the option to show off some special knowledge in their area, but can also be interesting to the listener. And a different question each episode.

I'd love to get some metrics on how those approaches compare to the traditional 30s to 60s ad reads (in terms of conversion).
Step 5: “Enjoy the shows when they air. Keep in touch to answer any final questions along the way.”

She pretty clearly said she listened to the podcasts she sponsored
Stereotype is probably the correct word, but it's overloaded here.

Stereotyping someone by something that they did not choose is a gateway to prejudice: skin color, eye color, place of birth.

Stereotyping someone by something that they did choose may be very useful for making inference about them, because it is a revealed preference: clothing tastes, food preferences, etc.
It's called a Directive. [1]

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_(European_Union)
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My barber shop only takes cash. Always been that way, and there are at least a couple of others here that are the same.
It was hilarious as an engineer who needed to learn marketing 101 for a startup, its pretty much just stereotyping your customers. "Wendy is a 24-30 yr old professional, slightly insecure, straight, likes wine and dogs."
So it is a cultural war.
I don't think this book has been completely written yet. I think we're just now starting to see some of the major issues with FOSS, so don't throw up that "Mission Accomplished" banner yet.

FOSS is very much like the internet, in general: it was great when it was a small group of technical, like-minded, dedicated individuals working towards common goals. It starts falling apart, however, once you introduce the rest of the world into the system because the world primarily works on the basis of ruthless self-interest.
one interesting one was that I took 5000 twitter profile photos and averaged the pixel values by male / female. unsurprisingly, the male average had short hair while the woman long. but what did surprise me was that the shirt area of the males had a blue hue and the women had a red one. its not like anyone in particular was wearing red/blue by sex, but on average they were.
Even if those that are in scope of the regulation they are not in the jurisdiction, so the regulations can be ignored.
In 1984, your children could be talking to the government...
Yes, because AWS uses that term for their product, right or wrong
Sure, but that's the sort of data we have to deal with in this arena. Who's going to run a large randomized trial where students are purposely assigned to different classes (keeping in mind that schedule conflicts already add additional constraints to this which may bias these assignments) and then, furthermore, have the instruction fixed apart from how easy the assignments are? Is it even fair to the students to knowingly assign students to relatively poorer teaching? Clearly it happens all the time, every department has that professor who is known for being a bad teacher yet they still have to assign classes.

In speaking with other grad students this seemed to be a well-known phenomenon, to the point that most other grad students intentionally didn't put much time into their teaching and basked in the positive reviews as a result. It was suggested many times to me that I was spending too much time thinking about my teaching. In my case, the lax teaching was not intentional, I simply was overcommitted that semester and had less time to prepare.
The whole article reads, to me, as "We can sell you ads on the most tenuous associations" as we're too stuck in our own marketing bubble. :)

Stereotypical difference between a peace activist and Wall St banker, sure. No doubt some more subtle variations too. Comparing mainstream brands? That seems a stretch too far to say the least.

Preferences in clothing and music are the leading indicators of political leaning

Or might indicate nationality and age group far more than politics? Music has long heavily influenced clothing.

opting for Levi’s over Rag & Bone makes a statement about associations and history and opens one up to fashion profiling

Or you were born in the 50s and haven't, yet, heard of Rag & Bone, or you prefer Levi's fit, or they're heavier denim. Or you're British and prefer Rag & Bone, as they started here. Or one was on offer at Amazon.

Or your partner chose whichever they prefer on you.
Are the 30% of papers including training data actually hosting the data set somewhere for download, or are they referencing a public data set elsewhere? Both approaches are acceptable in my book.

If a study uses a private data set, or one that the researcher controls and only gives out to approved partners, that study should be discounted.

I understand corporate labs cannot give away their data in many cases, but corporate research carries less authority than academic research anyways. Academic research should always make the data set publicly available.
A media company doesn't have a competitive advantage when making unrelated products, compared to companies that specialize in those products. The Alex Jones model is profitable because he exaggerates the benefits of his products and trades on his viewers' mistrust of other information sources. The NY Times would have to change completely to follow this strategy.
The point is simple, Europe is not the target market for a large portion of the internet.
Dave Ramsey seems to do both successfully.
Mammals are the vertebrates within the class Mammalia (/məˈmeɪliə/ from Latin mamma "breast"), a clade of endothermic amniotes distinguished from reptiles (including birds) by the possession of a neocortex (a region of the brain), hair, three middle ear bones, and mammary glands. Females of all mammal species nurse their young with milk, secreted from the mammary glands.

I think they come up short on a couple other requirements.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammal
That sounds grave. I believe in most cases the science is not questionable per se, but it passes just above the significance threshold to be considered technically valid. The problem is the extrapolations made from that, and the false media attention.

what your wife is describing is what is commonly called "progress one death at a time"
As a debilitatingly asocial person (even online), I have the complete opposite position. I dislike the industry shift towards games that focus on multiplayer and sometimes don't even have a single-player mode.
Yea, it’s a bit ambiguous, especially in Sillicon Valley where the whole place is built on immigrants. At the places I’ve worked easily over two thirds of my teammates were immigrants born in other countries.

I do see that apparently the creator of Vue.JS was born in China, and then worked at Google in America. Beyond that I’m not clear on the details.
I see the same comments every time a china topic is posted on HN. I wonder why?

> I don't think it would be far-fetched to assume that some very protected and valuable IP has leeched through our doors and into China's hands.

China has a "technology transfer policy" for foreign companies doing business in china. So if intel has a fab in china, they agreed to the technology transfer.

> In all honestly I really can't fathom how the American government let this deal occur.

Probably because it benefited US companies and the wealthy.

If china is stealing anything, it's here in the US, not from intel who agreed to trade technology for chinese market access.
There are a bunch of ratings 1-10, and then a place to optionally add comments. It's hard to consolidate information from 200+ comments, but, then again, most students do not fill out the comment section anyway.

(In a sense, I guess the whole thing is optional - after all, it is anonymous, and we don't check that every student has filled the whole thing out. It also switched from in-class to an online form during the time I was teaching, and the response rate went down quite a bit as a result, but this was after the situation I mentioned above.)
I see it as more like being in Westworld.
A coworker and I were discussing this very thing on Friday. He and I exhausted our Google-fu without success: Does anyone know of a framework/library that implements this? Don’t really care about the language, but per other comments we’re interested in the practical lessons learned that would show up in code.
> For legal residents, this is a way to avoid tax ...

I'd argue it's tax _evasion_, not avoidance. Tax avoidance is the legal use of the tax law to pay as little tax as possible. Tax evasion is circumventing of the law to relieve yourself of a tax burden that you are required to pay.
That’s a somewhat minor issue compared to the fact that the major anti-virus products appear to be effectively adware with a dubiously secure scanning engine built in.

Whenever I help clean up someone’s Windows computer, I treat any antivirus product other than Windows Defender as malware and get rid of it.
That’s ... really hard.

Honestly, I think self experimentation is the trick. Find someone who seems to be an expert, adopt one of their recommendations for a few weeks. Do you feel better? If yes, continue and pick a new recommendation. If no, reverse course and try something or someone else.

I personally recommend experts who both cite science, and are willing to reverse course when proven wrong.
So a replication crisis in artificial neuropsychology.
It's Detroit; no future... :(
And the average secured WiFi isn’t secure in a useful sense. Anyone else using it can pwn your unencrypted traffic just fine using standard techniques.
Better options would be:

1. Send partial HTTP response (206) with progress details which may be handled using AJAX progress API at the client before sending final response. This is processing and network intensive but may be needed in certain scenarios like drawing graphics etc. You cannot recover from connection loss.

2. Handover the task to a job scheduler and return the jobid. Client can then poll jobid using a status API or get the status pushed using a webhook. This is the more optimal approach for majority of cases.
China currently has dozens of journalists "in jail" meaning they are most likely dead and the US media hasn't said a peep. Shouldn't they be calling for sanctions against them, rather than attack Trump for doing just that with his tariffs?
Makes perfect sense. I remember seeing something a while ago about an fMRI study which showed that the difference between "Coke drinkers" and "Pepsi" drinkers had more to do with people's sense of identity than with actual physical enjoyment of each drink. We're probably all familiar with the stereotypes of latte-sipping liberals and beer-swilling conservatives. Are liberals physically different in a way that makes them more likely to enjoy latte? Unlikely.

People identify with brands as reflections of their identity and affiliations all the time. This is especially evident with cars. What kind of person drives a Prius? What kind of person drives an F-150? Don't tell me that mentioning those brands didn't make certain images pop into your head. I drive a Mini and love it, but I'd never buy a BMW 3-series (which is built from many of the same components) because of the brand associations. Of course someone who wears Carhartt is going to fit a different political profile than someone who wears Under Armour. It would be foolish not to use that information in targeting an ad or political campaign.
I don't think it was being used as the sole metric. Rather, I think it'd be used as a weight.

X percent of the population wears A brand, while Y population wears B brand. What correlations can we find in some Z count of reference population? Use that correlation value to infer data where none existed.

Yes, some of that inferred data will be wrong. But a lot won't be. And when you're talking a massive numbers game like millions of voters then you're also talking about accepting that trade-off by hedging against other correlations that can help solidify a potential inference.
Self-publishing code repositories or notebooks is clearly the superior approach, but unfortunately researchers are given less institutional credit if they are not published in an academic journal. The best approach is to get the benefits of peer review and then publish all your research artifacts alongside the paper. I am not sure if the academic journals prohibit this kind of thing though.
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> What I am arguing with is your repeated use of terms like "visitor", to make it sound like the guy just popped in for lunch one day and they claimed all his work. ... the usual connotation of "visitor" is incredibly misleading here, and I wish you'd be more clear about it.

"Visitor's Confidentiality Agreement" was the title of the NDA, for Pete's sake; that's what makes it sound as though the guy popped in for a meeting.

And the trial court's opinion says that the Stanford fellow "commut[ed] daily" to Cetus. This seems to suggest strongly that the fellow divided his time between Stanford and Cetus — in effect, that the guy was a daily visitor to Cetus, as opposed to being seconded to Cetus.

Again, the point: RTFA — because hindsight opinions might differ about what you should or shouldn't have expected.
Also, I said that it’s a risk to be managed. People are acting like I said that it’s a certainty and that not eating sugar constantly as a diabetic will kill you instantly or something.
Biology is absolutely a hard science. The soft sciences are things like economics, sociology and psychology. Look up "hard science" on wikipedia. Look it up in a dictionary. Look it up in any reference work you like.

It may very well be that you have your own peculiar definition of "hard science", or that you personally disagree that biology or biochemistry should be classified that way. That's fine, you're allowed to have your own opinions. But you having your own crackpot opinions doesn't make it fact in the real world.
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Stereotyping someone by something that you assume they chose is also a gateway to prejudice. @NeedMoreTea said it right by mentioning cases where someone might not have chosen their particular attire.
The FTC requires the sponsor relationship to be explicit, which, on podcasts, it always is.
Chris Wylie didn't work at Cambridge Analytica in 2016. He left in 2014 to create his own company, Eunoia Technologies, which was a direct and bitter competitor. The two regularly competed for clients and CA sued Eunoia, alleging that Chris took both clients and data with him when he left. It was a deeply unfriendly parting.

Therefore, Chris has no insider information about what happened at Cambridge Analytica during or in the run up to the presidential election. Therefore, these claims are creative fiction.
Surely an HN user with 42k karma and 8 year old account should know better than to purposefully use a clickbait title instead of the original. Or maybe that's how they got to 42k karma...?
I guess I missed that. I read it originally as being more about enjoying the results of the airing rather than listening to the actual show.

There's still no mention of listening to a podcast before paying them money or why this would be important in creating an effective ad. I really expected this to be one of the main points.
It’s a bad idea to get into pissing matches with shitty people. It’s bad for your mental health and it makes you look like a child. Ban toxic people from the mailing lists, I am all for that, but stop giving them drama and attention.
These are the same morons who got dozens of their assets killed because they left their chat completely unsecured to the point it could be found in Google search results.

The days of G-men are over, it's a bunch of Ivy league clowns whose daddies couldn't get them a job on wall street.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18376089

https://newrepublic.com/article/113216/ryan-fogle-cia-spy-ar...

Of course in this case it's just the CIA trying to sway the public. Look up Operation Mockingbird and then remember that Anderson Cooper interned with the CIA
Leibniz also dreamed of something similar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characteristica_universalis
I put the french subtitles first and it works out quite well for me. In any way you have to stay in a learning mode, pause at times to look up a word in the english subtitles, repeat for yourself in your head in the pauses etc.
I think Wired used to have a column like that.
With the evidence pointing to vast numbers of state agencies around the world engaging in this type of information warfare, do you think it better that democratic nations do nothing in response?

What would be an alternative or more effective method of defending against the Russian and Chinese troll farms?

I'm not endorsing these tactics, and wonder if we are already in a situation where there is a threat of mutually assured destruction? Doing nothing in response seems to lead to even worse outcomes then the admittedly unsavory alternative.
Isn't that fear something which the "Journal of Controversial Ideas" aims to solve?
Its creator also opposes same sex marriage. Perhaps creating a programming language doesn't mean you're right in all other contexts.
There are equivalent articles in Chinese.

a -> yige "一个"

the -> zhege "这个"/ nage "那个＂

And of course words like "my", "our" which are used in place of articles are there as well.

You might not need the articles when the context is very clear (which causes problems for Chinese speakers when they try to learn English), but the concept is there. I believe it's the same in Japanese. Can't comment on other languages though.
So your own enjoyment of a game is meaningless unless someone knows you're enjoying it? I suppose that's your prerogative, but it sounds like we play games for different reasons.
Is this a joke? Profit motive is far more likely to put the cart before the horse: pushing for evidence to support outcomes.
This really depresses me since I'm also very similar to my dad and I do not want to be.
Facebook makes it purposefully hard to talk to a human being: let's change that
Honestly... who cares??
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As someone who is both a developper and a psychology student, your average coder knows about as much psychology as your average psychologist knows about coding. That is to say, not a whole lot.

I am saddened but not surprised by psychology's replication crisis. But really it applies to all of academia, psychology is only in the spotlight because some of branches have less than stellar methodology in the first place. Social psychology gets criticized a lot, partly because it's one of the only branches rigorous enough to even be tested!

Obviously I'm not in favour of this. But it's a very big machine that needs fixing, and I don't think it starts with tweaking the details; drastic changes are required if we are to gain back the lost credibility. To me, this applies both to social and hard sciences. Since this is a general problem with academia, either your field has already been called out or it has yet to be. I don't believe the current system offers an alternative (yet), though I'm cautiously optimistic about preregistration.
Well okay, but these aren't opposites. Large businesses cooperate internally using bureaucracy. They cooperate externally using (and funding) foundations and other open source work.

There is market demand for stability and it can be a competitive advantage over innovative but unstable alternatives. (Consider why Go and Docker are so popular.)

And why do companies start and fund foundations? Because their customers have doubts. It's better for stability than a market that's not based on standards.
Not so much. When you pay someone to get a result, that’s what they do.
Good god. It's a joke.

> We can't blame pewdiepie nor expect him to act mature even though he has more than 70 million subscribers.

And apparently, he can't get some people to understand sarcasm or get a sense of humor.

> But youtube needs to have some sort of policy on subscriber campaigns to avoid these type of scenarios.

It's not a "campaign". It's a joke.

You would think someone one 'hacker'news would have a sense of humor or understand it at least, even if it isn't their style.
> Nobody wants to call out their peers because everyone benefits from the hype.

As a counterpoint, it seems that minsky and papert's work was partly driven from their desire to stop the funding of larger perceptrons , in which they did not believe. The winter that followed their work may or may not have delayed progress in AI by years or decades.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3ues-NayAs&t=642s