skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I missed something, but my experience was that Typescript was capable of making useful conclusions (i.e. MyLibrary.MyType.width exists, but MyLibrary.MyType.dog does not) about other libraries, delivered to it via NPM, that were also written in Typescript. If your libraries were written in JavaScript to be run in the browser you were stuck doing `declare var mylibrary: any;` and writing "unsafe" code. This is also true of any global variables/functions/etc. that exist in <script> tags in your HTML.

To be clear I don't expect it to be able to do this, reading JavaScript that was written without types and deciding what the types are sounds more or less impossible, it's just a demonstration of how you tend to end up with an imperfect solution as a result of the decisions made early on in the web's development.
I feel that you've nailed this PERFECTLY. These are also my thoughts after watching many hours of flat earth videos and talking in person to people who believe in flat earth. The discussion is always emotional and often ends with namecalling. It's really apparent that this is not only a discussion about facts, but something they are deeply invested in emotionally.
Must say, I wouldn't find it fun - I had a similar experience with my own folks when I found out they were avid Trump supporters. I was stunned at first, then I thought "nbd, I'll change their minds next family get together". Nope, every time we discuss it, we both double down, stop listening to each other, let our emotions run high, and get nowhere. Very stressful, we now try to avoid the subject altogether.
I’m not sure that’s true. Unlike a gym which has a fixed amount of space, machines and resources, Netflix can distribute a fixed price production (tv/movie) infinitely. So it’s therefore in their best interest to make sure that customers are always bingeing.
Netflix had all those social features, but they dropped them all.
I feel like this whole flat earth craze is more like tide pods than anything else. There are very few people who actually believe the earth is flat just like there are very few people out there who were accidentally eating tide pods. Its a practically nonexistent problem that everybody can't seem to stop talking about. Everybody who seems to talk about it that I ever see mostly do so as a gaff or some other reason. I guess the flip side of that is how many people actually believe there are large groups of the public who do or believe these sorts of things?

For me, where this type of stuff come from is more interesting. Is it pure trolling at its core or is there another reason for spreading the idea that these are problems? Is it some kind of experiment to see where the masses are at psychologically? Is it purely something crazy to talk about to provide revenue from advertising? I doubt we'll ever know who puts forth all the effort or why. But I do bet it will become a thing of the past as the catalysts move on and the cattle get over it.
Combination of "it is not there yet" and "a lot of people need it".

Former means that you still can produce improvement with a small team or even individual. It also mean that people are in constant search for something that would fix them very real problem they have.

The latter means that many such small teams are trying and having enough experience to be able to improve something small. It also means that people talk about it a lot which leads to information dissemination (so you learn about new things fast).
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Looks like you need independent evidence before the EUIPO and McDs legal team only came up with their own sources, plus Wikipedia. Had they only presented the 'Big Mac Index', I think it would have been enough?

https://www.economist.com/news/2019/01/10/the-big-mac-index
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Here's a better link from a collective of European IP lawyers. The point is that McDonald's was assuming it would be treated differently than any smaller company, and also that the Big Mac trademark might have been too broad to begin with, but this was not the decisive factor.

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/01/euipo-cancels-mcdonalds...
It was an Amazon third-party seller.
I got to the part where his parents were jehovas witnesses, and realised that perhaps people who are gullible enough to believe dumb shit like flat earth, are probably wired to believe dumb shit.

I’ll explain, my grandmother is a jehovas witness.

She believes any dumb shit she reads and hears, no matter how easily one could refute it. She will argue black and blue, and if you try and tell her she’s wrong, it only reinforces that she’s right and onto something “big” since we have to refute it.

Thing is about Jehovas witnesses is they believe that there’s a limited number of places in heaven, and only the truly devout will get a spot. There’s two real good ways to earn yourself a spot.

1. Donate a lot of money to the church over a lifetime.
2. Convert as many people as you can.

It is in essence a pyramid scheme.

No mattter how many times I’ve told her that she won’t earn one of the ~200,000 spaces in heaven (it’s really what they believe) because there’s easily a few million members of the “church” globally, and they would all be as devout as her... so if they all die before her surely they would get one of the 200,000 spots. Then what happens? Does their god say to person number 200,001 “oh shit man sorry we just sold out of spots in heaven. clicks teeth”

She will retort with “those other people have probably sinned and won’t get a spot.” Alluding that she’s better than people she doesn’t know. Which I’ll turn around on her and tell her that kind of thinking is probably a sin.

She will get up and walk away and we will begin this again next year.

Flat Earthers to me are similar to this kind of mindset. To hear that his flat earther parents were also Jehovas Witnesses... just wow.
Eratosthenes not only showed that the earth is round but computed its circumference around 200BC by measuring shadows at two different latitudes.
I disagree. Limit what we can do on computing devices we own is the worst offence to a democratic mind. Data privacy is of course important, but we don't need Apple to fix that, we can fix it on our own once the first problem is addressed.
I like your definition of good code. In the industry we are brainwashed to think that code is something that needs constant maintenance. Good to see someone who haven't succumbed that mindset.
My 2 cents

Communicate to IT team about new responsibilities being introduced and how this affects their current role. Explain to them why the business requires this change.

Consider the bandwidth of the team, are they about to take on these new responsibilities without affecting their daily duties. If they cannot manage maybe another team needs to be spun up.

To get individual confidence up training, workshops and learning resources can help with getting up to speed. Maybe hire a senior engineer to mentor. Set reasonable goals and soft deadlines to try to gauge levels of performance. Mainly to check how people are getting on or if something is not changing. As responsibility increase maybe compensation can help to motivate.
I think they require some 'independent' source of information, like news articles. I'm quite surprised by the comments on this article. McDonald's didn't present their case properly while that should have been easy. Seems the onus is on them, regardless they still have their appeal.
I wonder that it didn't happen earlier. In the rush to get Chinese money western nations (and companies) ignored for a long time that China is a dictatorship. With all the things that entails.

It looks like those things come now in sharp focus once again and Huawei is the first victim of it. Regarding the moral high ground: IMO flawed democracy > dictatorship.
You don't need to demand Apple change. There are countless phones and pads available from other companies, many of which will satisfy your requirements.
iAd stood out because it didn't share customer data with advertisers as was the standard in the industry.

>Apple has a lot of knowledge regarding its users,but what it doesn’t do with that data is share it with advertisers very freely. That makes Madison Avenue very mad.

>rather than offering a cookie-based ad-tracking and targeting mechanism, it essentially requires partners to tell it what kind of audience it needs to reach, and then trust that Apple will handle the rest, AdAge says. And it’s well worth noting that Apple prioritizes customer privacy here over a big potential upside in ad revenue.

>what it doesn’t do is hand over the keys to all that data and let advertisers plug into it directly with their own data-mining and targeting software. That’s not standard for the ad industry and that’s likely the reason a few Madison Avenue feathers are ruffled over their approach.

https://techcrunch.com/2014/02/18/advertisers-not-thrilled-w...

It's not impossible to sell ads without spying on users on behalf of your advertising customers, it's just less profitable.
>The reason these choices exist is because lots of very smart people are thinking very hard about ways to do things better

Well, that's one way of thinking about it. Another way of thinking about is that it's a lot easier to gain recognition and mindshare for releasing a new framework than there is in refactoring or implementing improvements upon an existing framework. This incentive structure applies at both the corporate and individual level.

I've found, from my experience working at large tech companies, that many frameworks get started because a senior engineer wants a demonstrable project to demonstrate their leadership and technical skills in order to get a raise or a promotion. A new framework is definitely a high-impact project with a very clear deliverable and a well-defined set of requirements. So they make a new framework and then market the absolute daylights out of it, since one of their goals isn't just to create a new framework, but also to demonstrate some level of adoption for it. So the framework is pitched as the next big thing, which makes all existing frameworks obsolete.

Scale this motivation and approach up to the level of corporations rather than individuals, and you have the modern web development ecosystems. Corporations want goodwill and mindshare, and they know that one of the ways to get that is to release a framework that everyone uses.
I think there's a symmetry between conspiracy theorists and conspiracies. It's a kind of jealousy. They want to feel like they're in on a secret club. You can go one better than joining the Illuminati by instead joining the secret club that exposes them.
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As I've read it, he got a very close estimate, but only because he made two errors that happened to cancel each other out.

As well, he didn't actually measure the shadows himself, but heard stories about there being no shadow at a specific city.
Marbling is prized because the fat gives a buttery flavor that people like. Look at Kobe beef in Japan, it is the most expensive, prized beef because the extreme marbling shows the highest fat content.
This sounds similar to Russia, at least to me with my limited experience as an interviewer and even more limited as an interviewee.
I used to think that Flat earthers and anti-vaxxers were really weird until I encountered the situation where AQI was bad in Seattle.

It was around 170 AQI that day. Less than 30% of people on the street wore masks. Nobody cared about Science or warning around bad AQI.

I've learned one life lesson:

When I brought up this topic about wearing masks, people got defensive. Now they claimed that bad AQI didn't affect them.

Well, this pm2.5 is not visible to our eyes, and the health impact isn't immediate. It's kinda analogous to anti-vaxxers, when you think about it.

The takeaway is to never point out about a slow fatal condition that people are in. People will get defensive. I'd love some suggestions here on how to subtly suggest it.

I wonder how many anti-vaxxers unconsciously know they are wrong but stand their ground anyway because someone close to them points out how dumb they are or how soon they will die.

Note that flat earthers are fundamentally different from anti-vaxxers in the way that believing the earth is flat doesn't have any impact on their livelihood.
>at the highest price the market will bear (meaning that some people can't afford them)

If anyone can't afford your drugs, this is an issue of insufficiently optimized price discrimination (as long as what they can afford is above the marginal cost of manufacture). There's often manufacturer's coupons for exactly this reason - make a compelling case about what you can afford, and the manufacturer will drop prices until you can give them some money instead of none.
Well, and now they're going to spend a lot of computer time finding parallel constructions for the same molecule they want to patent, so they can patent those as well.
Aristotle's proof was less mathematical but to me more surprising: "you can see Earth's shadow on the Moon and it's always a circle" which point to a great deal of understanding of planets, lightning and orbital mechanics.
That is horrifically naive, as it would only solve the problem for the few. It would create a two tier society where the highly technically literate get privacy and everyone else are limited to whatever the big companies ship by default.

Apple's products already respect my privacy; they don't need to be "fixed." Further, it is absurd to contend that there will be a net gain in privacy by letting the unwashed masses choose random shit they found on the internet to control the core of their devices. After all, installing random shit from the internet has totally never been a problem for privacy, ever.
I've been using Linux as my primary OS for about a year now, and while I agree that Linux has come a long way, it's definitely not ready for prime time just yet. Here's why:

- GUI performance is bad. I have a reasonably high end system, but switching between desktops is choppy unless I turn my resolution down to 1600x900.

- Trackpad support is bad. It works but feels clunky. You really feel the difference when you use a Macbook for the first time in a while.

- Hibernate doesn't work. I've tried and tried to get this to work but haven't succeeded. So now I either need to keep my laptop plugged in all the time or shut it down (which is annoying, because I encrypt my hard drive so I have to enter two passwords to start).

- Bluetooth doesn't work well. I have to run a command to restart my bluetooth service every time I connect, and still sometimes have to re-pair my headphones. I use a wired connection now to avoid dealing with it.

I bought a Linux-native laptop (System76 Galago) thinking things would work out of the box, but this hasn't been the case. (Also, the Galago's battery is awful so I wouldn't recommend it even if everything worked well.)

The next time I'm ready to drop $1500+ on a laptop, I'll probably just get a Macbook.
I noticed they stopped displaying licences on all repos recently. Everything says "view licence" now.

Why would they not allow AGPL? It's a perfectly valid free software licence.
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I'm a musician, and I've been one for, well, 20 years now.

Without a doubt, my most productive years were from year 2-6. At year two, I had mastered the instrument enough to be productive, and for the next four years, I'd practice up to 12 hours a day, writing and record stuff as I progressed on.

Lots of times, I re-visit older stuff, that I now felt I could do much better - having progressed as a musician and songwriter. Suddenly I noticed errors or things I hadn't done before.

As the years went on, and I got better, I (for some reason) lost that creative fire I had as a novice. I became much more critical, wanted everything to be "perfect", and would essentially stumble on more challenges.

And then, out of the blue, I'd hit a writers block - or just lose motivation all-together. Suddenly I could go for a year or two without writing or recording anything - zero output.

Even if I don't practice as much as before, I'm still a much, much better musician than I used to be. But my creativity and drive is nowhere the same as when I was transitioning from beginner -> intermediate -> good musician.

FWIW, I've noticed this with a lot of my peers, both in the world of music, tech, and other. Sometimes it's because a hobby has turned into work, or sometimes it's just change in interest.

It's hard to be passionate about something 24/7/365 for years and years, and when you're not passionate, it becomes a grind.

When you're a beginner, it's fun to re-invent the wheel over and over again, as you get a sense of ownership. YOU made it, even though it's been made millions of times before.

Sure, I could spend my evenings pushing out apps just for the sake of it, but it wouldn't give me any pleasure. And besides, that's what I do for a living.
This is the first time I'm hearing about Flat Earthers so a couple of questions according to these people, if anyone knows - genuinely curious (I don't want to search since then Google will start showing me some ads related to FE):

1) if the Earth is flat, then what is on the other side of the flat Earth - do people live there?

2) I'm assuming it's like a thick cylinder, if so how thick is the Earth?

3) depending on how thick it is, what is on the sides - do people live there?

OR, do these morons don't care about these things?? Again, genuinely curious if anyone knows.
You can buy pretty decent yacht for 50-100k to live in for the rest of your life.

Doing web dev over satellite would cost same as on superyacht.
Looks very similar to R, dplyr and pipes.
> Scientists keep conveniently coming up with these photos that supposedly show the Earth and other planets to be round, but the rest of us have no way of verifying that they're anything other than pure fiction.

Unfortunately this still applies. It’s very hard to “prove” this to people, space travel being expensive and all, but until they can experience it themselves it’s easy to keep coming up with reasons why scientists are misleading you.
It takes time for people to realize they could spend the time in better things in life
Once they do/ get bored of the old stuff they move on... hopefully to something productive than passive consumption or winning imaginary trophies..xD
This works in the opposite direction. Read Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy's The Jesus Mysteries and you'll see the sort of unsubstantiated and ridiculous theories that permeate the Flat Earther worldview.
In the contrary, it shows that both big and small companies are treated equally. What would not have been enough for a less known company was also not enough for Mcdonald's, shcih simply didn't make the effort to submit outside evidence. The judgement was a bit legalistic in so far as common sense would have said 'obviously McD sells Big Macs' but it's simply that they didn't submit the right kind of evifencr. From other articles McD seemingly was acting like a trademark bully in registering it's competitors' product names - meaning they (presumably less known outside Ireland) had to provide objective evidence. It's only right that the burden of proof is applied equally to all, McD shot itself in the foot, first in causing this issuey first by filing frivolous trademarks and trying to block a competitors entering the markety causing the whole process, and then by not making the effort to submit the right kind of evidence. No one else is to blame and this is a huge e endorsement of the fairness of the EU trademark system.

They can appeal so it will all be a non-story in a while.
Also time to give up user data to the Chinese government, apparently.

https://iphone.appleinsider.com/articles/18/02/24/apple-to-m...
I am using Ubuntu since version 6, inkscape gimp web programming been handled really well till date. Only complain is engineering drawing, for which AutoCAD level replacement yet to find.
It doesn't look like he's worried but IMHO he should be: while a lot of these flat-earther/conspirationist are just "having fun" like he said, crooks can target easily these people!
They're telling the word: I'm a gullible person with faulty logic, imagine how an attractive target they represent to crooks!
"Available on the public web" does not mean "freely accessible", otherwise you'd be able to scrape - or simply download - without getting blocked for ToS/AUP violations.
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But it is not the juggernaut it was at it's prime. I'll never forget that 4 to 6 day stretch when you would watch random people playing it on their phones. In parks, malls, supermarkets, Costco! It seemed like everywhere I went there would be at least 6 people playing it.

I don't think I ever experienced something like that before. A really visual, tangible fad.
My apologies. There should be "if", of course, and I somehow overlooked it.
He he, had to look up "5G conspiracy", I hadn't gone down that intellectual black hole before.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/evmzv7/alt-right-...

For anyone interested in a sympathetic approach to debunking fraudulent belief systems I recommend Carl Sagan's excellent book: The Demon Haunted World. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Demon-Haunted_World
apple has masterful market segmentation.

they want the inexpensive option to not really fill a specific niche, they want it to be a little uncomfortable, that you're already making compromises so you'll pay a grand for the fancy one instead.

What i'm trying to say is, making a smaller option would be cheaper. That would cannibalize high end sales. From the seller's point of view, you want the best alternative to compromise all of your desires, so it's not that big of a deal to just upgrade. something inherently small violates that.

HNers can identify the tradeoffs. Apple probably understands the tradeoffs better though. Apple exploits them. (I say this as a loyal iphone owner.)
It's also what venture capitalists do at the level of companies. Fund a hundred companies, and then watch them. Pour more money into the ones who appear to be succeeding.
To show the kind of real respect for privacy, we need to access every piece of code that we are running. If you don't have time or technical ability to do that, there are enough eyeballs out there.

Can apple do that? Or are you going to simply trust?
Given a vet could take their knowledge and go to a village in most of the world and save lives I find city vets some of the most unethical people.

Taking the power to directly save life and using it on the pets of the rich.

Perhaps this weighs on them.
In that case, that’s what is called “graceful degradation”, progressive enhancement goes the other way around (code for older browsers, then provide cool features for newer browsers). Like desktop first vs mobile first.
It's not the government. It's an independent agency that follows it's procedures correctly no matter whether it's a mom&pop shop or a global giant. McD caused the whole issue and then didn't bother submitting the right kind of evidence.
More importantly it means you have to share any modifications you make to the library itself. This is good for us. Sharing is good.