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>If it's tedious, you're probably doing something wrong or sub-optimal.

>IMHO we're reaching the point where typescript (or similar languages) should be used by default over untyped javascript in professional environments. It's like having tests, which are also not generally considered optional.

Gotta love JS community. It flip-flops on some major aspect of system design roughly every year, yet people continue to arrogantly spout their opinions about system design as if they had been correct about everything all along. Not "these are the benefits, these are downsides" not "I've improved in X by using Y", always "nobody needs X, everyone must do Y, and if you're not doing Z you're wrong and unprofessional". Zero self-awareness.
As expected, it was pretty overblown. Realistically though we won't really know for another year or two. The specs keep on changing, and even if it's finalized, it won't be enforced for a long while.
Half of the Internet collapsing due to lack of ad revenue isn’t necessarily an apocalypse, even though it sounds like one.

For example, it’d end domain squatting. (EDIT: Guess not!)
Tin snips give a nicer finish with thin sheet metals.
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> Privacy is paramount to us, in everything we do

this statement is fraudulent and Justin Schuh should be embarrassed to have it associated with his name. i'm tired of being lied to about this company's obviously fake "values".
He was right, though. Plastic screens would've been a disaster, pocket or no pocket.
At the end of the day, Google has a fundamental crisis. Their entire business depends on your lack of privacy from them. They would be happy to help keep you private from everyone else but they definitely need to invade your privacy to keep their business alive.
Logically this makes sense but it can be tricky to implement successfully for everyone. For breast-fed infants, it may be the case that mom has to be more frequently involved in the overnight care. It makes sense for dad to get as much sleep as possible in this case, but that can lead to resentment and other issues.

My wife and I traded off as you indicated but that was no picnic, either. We found it easier to split wake-ups during a night so that each of us could get a manageable amount of sleep, vs one person waking up every couple hours all night long. No matter how you slice the time up, nobody is going to 'well-rested' when there are only two people taking care of an infant.
Thank you. I've been scolded a bit by the replies here, so I know I need to examine what I'm not doing and remedy that.
> There will be nothing like guerilla warfare in Hong Kong though. Literally no one has any military experience there, and nobody owns a weapon either.

You don't need guns. Making car bombs and IEDs requires only determination and some practice. PLA as any modern army is poorly equiped to combat urban guerilla. Such a dense maze like Hong-Kong had never been experienced by any army.

Loss of face for China would be collosal if any sort of prolonged and effective resistance happend after intervention.

But I hope it won't be necessary.
Maybe I'm mistaken but from what I remember I had read a couple that were not human labeled. Let me take a gander later today.
so it will collapse, and new stuff will emerge to fill the void... so?
"Some ideas include new approaches to ensure that ads continue to be relevant for users, but user data shared with websites and advertisers would be minimized by anonymously aggregating user information, and keeping much more user information on-device only. Our goal is to create a set of standards that is more consistent with users’ expectations of privacy."

These ideas don't work together Google. First, I don't want to see ads at all to lookup information. Encyclopedias didn't have advertisements in their Table of Contents. Second, you can't show relevant ads for users while keeping user data anonymous, especially when your algorithms and methods of doing so are closed-source.
I'd argue that Linux is moreso 1 and 2 ("highly-integrated first-class hardware support" and support for all third-party components under the sun").

You rarely have to install any drivers. The kernel comes with drivers for almost every driver under the sun.

On the other hand, there are a lot of CVEs for Linux, and while they do get fixed quickly, the security vulnerability surface area is quite large. Especially considering the sheer size of kitchen sink kernel that is.
You can also disable passive entry, and rely on pressing unlock on the fob or using the Tesla app to unlock the vehicle and enable drive mode.

I wrote a python script that allows quick delegation of access to our Tesla vehicles to family and friends, so huge fan of using the app and API over the passive fob.
Try to get into politics and climb up to be Prime Minister/President of your country.
Only in this way you can fight the bad big Corps affecting the climate of this planet.
I never suggested that, hell Apple does not even suggest that.

They proposed an option for allowing ads without them being a privacy nightmare.
It doesn't have to be a majority of your time - just do what you can, it's better than not doing anything.
I'd say we should have a proper looping facility that allows for building lists without the fuzz of having special syntax. Common lisp has one. The ITER macro in CL has is user-extensible, as are racket's for-loops.

For non-lazy languages, you either need some sort of loop fusion or a construct like transducers to get similar functionality.
This reads as "save the cookies" to me. From a company who specializes in tracking of all forms including location from our phones and parsing all of our emails to enumerate our recent shopping orders on 3rd party sites.

What if websites just return to contextual ads and proper opt-in consumer studies (as traditional groups like nielson still do) instead of tracking everything their users do online and offline for aggressive targeting?

Then we wouldn't need to "save the cookies".
>Recognizing emotions as part of the problem and solution feels like a big step.

I think this is actually the worst thing we can do. Science is facts, cold hard facts.

If you want to get rid of the science and focus on emotions, then the solutions to the _real_ problem will get distorted.
To repeat what many have said I'm not sure why this is so popular or highly anticipated. I played WoW vanilla heavily 15 years ago, was bleeding edge, had the legendary hammer from ragnaros, and then.. you know.. grew up. Got burnt out and quit shortly after the 1st expansion, got a career, got married, etc.

Why would I go back to that mess? What's the appeal of 5+ hour raids every night in 2019? For content thoroughly covered 15 years ago. "Nostalgia" is no where near enough for me and I would expect that I am the primary demo for this product. Maybe if they gave me my hammer back..
If you're located in US, start voting against Trump in 2020
Doesn't matter; the government can still resume the second reading with only a few days notice and then rush through the bill within 24 hours, unless it is formally withdrawn.
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I agree with what you said. All these things compound and have multiplied effects. It's hard to blame a single factor like working hours when the underlying reasons for even that are cultural, political, geographical, historical etc.
And how do you suggest a service such as Maps or Youtube stay free? Do you realize the amount of money that goes into maintaining those services? Would you be okay to returning to using paper maps? Or do you propose the rich get richer by having better tools and the poor are stuck with primitive tools?
That's just the side you take in this openness/simplicity tradeoff and not a good reason for saying smartphones should be locked down in general. There are going to be people who want more open phones or more locked down desktops. Users should have the choice not only with their computers, but also with their phones.

That Apple and Google have taken that from the user is unfortunate and I think there's not much of a case to be made against that. All you've been saying so far boils down to: you don't want an open phone, and because Apple and Google have coincidentally made the same choice for their customers this kind of paternalism is fine by you. Kind of a short sighted position, no?
Perhaps "white" is the last color you want to choose for the same reason.
Thanks for fighting bullshit!
Wasn't Hitler a fascist?
I joke with Andrew Winston that after each of our conversations I require a stiff vodka martini. The thing is we must listen. Start here. It’s as rational a view as you will find
I quit my job last September and had the same experience with my boss in the US. Almost word for word they said the same thing.

Both bosses were good bosses and sounds like your boss was a good manager too.
The author of this article wrote one of my all time favorite books, _The Making of the Atomic Bomb_. Hr tells the story of the Manhattan Project incredibly well.

The sequel, _Dark Sun_, about the making of the hydrogen bomb, is OK but has a lot more Cold War espionage than science.

Both worth a read!
To be fair this is a project that will be cancelled in 18 months anyways.
I have a similar situation, and individual action and contributing to collective action (donations to groups, low level advocacy) has helped with the feeling of guilt. It's how large level change will happen, too.

There is a technical ability to save this. There is a long way to go in a relatively short time to create the necessary awareness and accept the necessary "sacrifices".

Thanks for the reply, and I'm really happy to hear that.
Yes, I think that's a fair conclusion. More case law on this subject has been centered around the relationship between the defendant and the company. In particular, does the defendant owe the company a _duty of care_, or, put differently, is the defendant _entrusted_ with protecting a company's secrets? If no, then typically defendants have not been held liable.

Sometimes the defendant isn't even the person who traded - it's been the person who tipped off the trader, and who gained some benefit from that trade. Where the trader is family or another close relationship, such benefit is often presumed in the law.

(Disclaimer: I am an attorney but this is not legal advice. Consult a licensed attorney in your jurisdiction.)
> I breathed a real sigh of relief when I realized this initiative is about privacy, rather than privatizing the web.

Well, an initiative for other browsers, publishers, and their advertising partners to protect adtech is definitely not about privacy.
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I am at FB completely by choice as I don't need to work any longer. FB is an amazing company - best talent I have ever worked with combined with some of the most interesting challenges I have ever faced. And it gives you the means and autonomy to pursue really bold projects, like PyTorch. Yes it made some serious mistakes but it's genuinely trying to solve them. I know me just saying it won't convince you that it's the case, would be hard not to be skeptical given the press and the way it's portrayed on HN, but on the inside it's pretty clear.
So you'd rather live in a world where the rich exploit and consumerize everyone else with targeted propaganda?
Isn't that exactly what this blog post is proposing too?
> half of the internet collapses

Is that a bad thing ??

There are a lot of good aguments that the bad brought by the internet out weighs the good.

I also don't think all the nice tools you described would go away. People would still provide these services for free, although it would be different people than today.
Lebensraum ("living space") [0] was an argument used to justify the same thing. We don't have enough room for everyone...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensraum
Yet they don't mention Android, where the security is so lax you can also be fingerprinted and data sent to a remote server without you ever knowing, where Chrome on Android doesn't even allow you to use ad blocking tools?

This is a weak attempt at showing how tracking Google has been a part of and enabled is not being accepted by certain vendors anymore.

Let's build a cross OS, cross browser and cross platform set of standards, not just for the web but computing as a whole.

Also, didn't Google propose cutting the web manifest to prevent tools like uBlock from working as well? Not sure what's going on with this...
That is why I refuse to bag large fruits in their own plastic bags. My shopping cart always has apples, peaches, pears and bananas loose in the cart. Its a slight hassle during checkout but to me its worth it.
The aesthetics of that game make me want to go buy it right away just from that gif you linked, it just looks so interesting and unique!

And I don't think it's unfair to use aesthetics as a judge of quality. First of all, as you mentioned, nice aesthetics do enhance the experience. And second of all, it's a way to signal strength - a team not capable of making a good game will often not be capable of making it look interesting either, especially for indie games.

And it doesn't have to be that expensive either. There's a game I'm slightly affiliated with (but not in any monetary way) that has been made with a budget of $0 by volunteers (mostly highschoolers) and I think it looks good just because of the insane attention-to-detail and meticulousness of everyone involved. Here's [0] what it looks like for reference.

[0]: https://youtu.be/Uryrdj-DUcA?t=4
> hold China and India responsible for their wildly outsized levels of pollution once you control for their per capita contribution to humanity

China and India contribute 4-10 times less CO2 per capita than the US.
I'd just like to point out to other commenters the context of where this opinion is coming from - that being that this user has a comment history that denies that the Tiananmen Square massacre took place.
No it won't. Domain squatting is so cheap that it's worth it even without ads.
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"Contextualizing the data"

"model has been developed"

"We suggest"

But headline suggests proof.

This happens in other scientific fields (cough).
One quote that I always remember regarding the Japanese atomic bombs, is that survivors of Hiroshima ere in such agony, they begged nurses to kill them.
I cant speak to having much experience with this myself as my first kid just hit 6 months.

I feel like the stress is much higher than it would be without kids, but the rewards are higher as well. Managed well it can be more than worth it, but doing it when you aren't prepared makes it hurt that much more.
>f you want to stop climate change then, e.g., (and many of these will be uncomfortable to most here) give up your car, find jobs that are remote work or even better yet where you can walk to work, move to a temperate climate where little heat and cooling are needed, stop immigration of people from low impact regions to high impact regions

We can't all do this, unfortunately. And I don't mean "us on HackerNews", I mean "us, globally".

>dvocate for population control of African and Asian populations that are adding on the order of net 85 million additional humans to the planet every year

This is a tough one. It's widely known that simply being born or having children contributes more to climate change than almost every other single source. And yet, rapid population growth in the 2nd/3rd world is a taboo subject.
He, he, this reminds of that app from beginning of app stores: "How high you can throw your phone" - where it relied on phone sensor to calculate the distance when the phone was thrown upward. Good times.
it's of both. Nokia was heavily constrained by the Finnish labor laws and working culture.
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Totally agree, and I suggest turning the strict option on (in tsconfig). There are a plethora of additional bugs that the TypeScript compiler will catch for you, but they're turned off by default (though I think create-react-app turns it on now?). For example, making sure class members are initialized. For a greenfield project I see no reason not to turn it on; TS obviously leaves it off by default because it would make working with older code that much harder.
The question then is how many of them are from developers that have been able to consistently live off it for 25 years.

His point is not that it can't be better, but that he believes he can't do better without taking financial risks he does not believe to be worthwhile given that his current model works for him, and that his games look good relative to the constraints.
My thoughts exactly, a desperate attempt of putting more expensive lipstick on that pig.

Google is an antonym to Privacy.
World of StarCraft would be the end of my productive adult life.
Yeah he is in rough shape, to be honest we (doctors/wife/family) expected him to go when he was 75-76 or so. He has been hanging on that is for sure. I figure if I can extend his 1 year, to be even say 1 year and 6 months, it would be worth it.

He has been on/off oxygen in the past and he's at that stage where he is waiting to kick the can, and is a very lucky man who has a wife of 66 years, who still takes care of him everyday.

I can guarantee if his wife passed, he would go the next day and that he is holding on because he knows how much she loves him.
The world doesn't care about per capita.
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In don't understand your incredulity. If anything, any government official would have an incentive to show more people and growth than less.
That's not the correct response. I'm pretty sure the person was being facetious.
Wouldn't diving into the world of doomsday preppers assist you in planning? (I mean, stereotyping aside that they're all crackpots or w/e surely they'd be useful for the literal thing they're trying to do.)
My brother and I have been working our way through the Exile series, and while they’re old and rough, the game content is really good. They make you feel like smart figuring out some tough optional puzzle, and there is a great sense of exploration and internal mapping.

Funny enough I never played any of Vogel’s games past Blades of Exile, and honestly, it’s because I think they look bad, aesthetically. I never felt this way about Exile, or even old Ultima games. The problem here isn’t “these games don’t have good graphics” but rather “these games don’t have good art direction/style/aesthetic”. Vogel says in the post he has used multiple artists with conflicting art styles, and it shows. As the games got higher resolution the problems just got more apparent.
> Science is facts, cold hard facts.

How do you figure?
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Yes. Being a software developer is easy. It's not necessarily the case, but I can think of no other trade that pays so well and offers so many opportunities for so little ability, effort, accountability, responsibility and stress.
You might want to consider donating to some of the groups that have sprung up. Two that have had recent visibility are:

Extinction Rebellion, organisers of the civil disobedience protests in the UK and elsewhere - https://rebellion.earth

Client Earth, a legal charity aiming to repeatedly take governments to court on climate matters. Became much more visible when Dave Gilmour made a major donation recently: https://www.clientearth.org
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He does direct investment.
Personally, I don't trust the fox (Google) to guard the hen house (my privacy). Sure, they might keep other foxes away, but I'll still be short a few hens at the end of the day.
> Except without advertising half of the internet collapses.

You can still run ads without knowing anything about the user. They will be less targeted and less profitable, but you can still use them.
"Also, I detest fascism - but devil's advocate - is fascism worse than literal extinction?"

Why in the world do you think that democratic structures will make it intact through a descent into extinction. I'm not going to cite Mad Max as a sociological point, but society will break down under unmitigated global warming. When food and water safety cannot be met, law loses its authority. You can see this on a small scale after cyclone landfalls.
https://www.numbeo.com/quality-of-life/rankings_by_country.j...
I’m not. At all.
> First, large scale blocking of cookies undermine people’s privacy by encouraging opaque techniques such as fingerprinting.

Including delivering browser exploits [1] to better track users, for which Google was fined.

People's privacy is undermined primarily by companies which would do anything to track users, not by attempts to prevent tracking.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19200279
What's a, "PR". (I'm being serious)
>China and India contribute 4-10 times less CO2 per capita than the US.

And rising, fast.

Besides that, the planet doesn't care about per capita numbers.
> They proposed an option for allowing ads without them being a privacy nightmare.

Non-personalized ads won't be lucrative enough to fund the web. Let's stop this equivocation. When people say that preventing tracking will kill advertising, they mean that it'll kill personalized advertising. When you respond to these concerns by pointing out that non-personalized advertising would still be possible, you're using this one word, "advertising", to refer to a different concept. Word games make for bad arguments.
Again, it's not about the company owning the data.

For instance, regulatory requirements might mean that someone comes to you and says...give me every interaction and related data that references this person who doesn't work here. That would mean anytime they are mentioned in word docs, records in Salesforce, anytime someone mentioned them in chat or email, and everything else.

I'm not saying that you aren't right. I'm just saying that the integration with other services allows for management at scale that is useful in large organizations.

Instead of going to lots of individual services and exporting data into something that you can then use to ad-hoc query, you can go to one place and create a job that goes out and collects the data for you. That has value.

In the end it gets back to the "best of breed" vs "pre-integrated"...It depends on how and where you assess value.

For some people, just not using MS has value. For lot's of people/orgs having all the things integrated already, even if they aren't the best tools available, is a better value.
For me, pixel art is a technical limitation. I don't see the point of romanticising a technical limitation. What limitation are we going to do next? Retro low-poly 3D models? A soundtrack consisting of six songs only? Distributing the game on 13 floppy disks? Games that never get updates? Low quality collision objects? Null-model cable multiplayer? game_demo.exe file download from CNET.com? Anti-piracy methods by having to look up words from a book?
Try to say that to management.
I'm sure most of them will promote this kind of behaviour instead of "asking for more time".

Time is money and your manager doesn't want to get negative indicators
> People would still provide these services for free

Citation needed.
Sad. They simply should give content producers the option of whether they want to receive messages or not. (Similar to how you can turn comments on or off). This way, individuals who received "targeted harassment" could be free of it, and other individuals who don't have this problem, or are more thick-skinned or tolerant, can receive messages. (One complaint in a recent lawsuit against YouTube is that Google allow users to "harass" content creators. See https://variety.com/2019/digital/news/lgbtq-youtube-lawsuit-... ). I'm sympathetic to their concerns, and turning off the ability to write messages or contact is one solution. There are already some controls available.

I've used these messages quite a bit to contact people with similar "niche" interests (restoring old electronic equipment from WWII era through the 60s) and it's very useful.