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Typescript is flawed, but it is a godsend compared to using straight JS. You can use it like Java until you can't. And then you are forced to muck around with JS hacks just to please the transpiler.

Usually that happens using generic types. They are almost completely worthless in Typescript, and have no analog whatsoever in JS. So you are mucking around just to please the transpiler but adding a type unsafe hack anyway in place of a generic argument.

Typescript should have just stuck with providing checks on type declarations. That's it. Stop adding features from Java/C# when they make no sense in JS.

I would pick another language in a heartbeat, given a choice.
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That's interesting. I'm fascinated by psychedelics ever since I tried salvia, I learned just how strange consciousness is or rather our perception of reality. Salvia is so bizarre that it's impossible to put to words, the experience. It's also interesting how unlike other psychedelics it is, like LSD & tryptamines, it doesn't target the serotonin receptors but opioid.

I am not a believer in external entities or anything of that kind as I believe all these psychedelics do is show how powerful our brains are in constructing and reconstructing the raw input of the world. It's just so bizarre though that's all even possible.

Some interesting threads:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Salvia/comments/avc7yc/i_cannot_str...

https://www.reddit.com/r/DMT/comments/ctwh0r/how_has_dmt_aff...

And this GIF is quite accurate in how salvia feels like if you can even describe it.

https://i.imgur.com/KbedrL4.gifv
I really think the only real criticism she has here is the price as even those she interviewed and were complaining had gotten jobs doing the thing the school trained them to do.

I read through her criticisms of lambda as well, I've been keeping tabs on them and they seem legit. Again the only real complaint I've seen people have has been related to price. Not in a "I won't pay it" kind of way but in a "wish it was less" kind of way. To me that's just grumbling and not a real critique.

This was interesting to read as I attend a school called 42, which functions very similarly to Holberton but free. I've not been to Holberton but I'm about 80% sure that their and our initial curriculum was both based off the work done by Epita and Epitech. I should note that ours has changed as there are teams working on it and many of our students and former students create some as well (I myself made a suite of projects for swift that is about to be rolled out). So it would make sense if they changed theirs too.

The no teacher thing works a lot better than you would think, it teaches you to figure things out, to ask questions, to collaborate and usually when you teach others it helps to solidify your understanding. I actually think if anyone studied this way for a few months it would improve them more than any degree. I'm not advocating against degrees, but this being able to figure things out for yourself skillset often feels like a superpower.

None of these schools are without their problems, everything in life is a tradeoff after all. But I'm insulted that she would imply that everyone who writes about their school in a positive way would be paid. I genuinely believe in building up a community and in strengthening my network, so when I write an optimistic piece on medium or twitter or HN or wherever it's not because I don't believe in it or am being paid, but an effort to pay it forward.

I'm not willing to shift through her tweets to find out what she said about Lambda, I have friends doing that program, and have considered it myself, I follow Austen and some of their staff on twitter, they seem genuine, people that have graduated from it have only good things to say. The only real criticism I've heard is that it's fast paced, which isn't even necessarily a bad thing.
Viewed from yet another angle "Advertising forms parasitic bonds and makes whatever it attaches to dependent on it for survival"
I wonder, while the halting problem is undecidable for arbitrary Turing machines, are there any practically useful subsets where the halting problem is decidable?
It's difficult to presume any circumstances other than this being a vehicle for the author(s) to collect cryptocurrency.
It is more complex than that. Washington doesn't have income tax and doing Ok.
Ask HN: How do you focus during the workday?
It's not an opt out if I have to give up my home. It's my house and land, why can't I force your government to leave?
Last thing, let me pet the cat in the first room.
> we are but one small mutation away from some very bad disease jumping from cows, pigs (very likely due to anatomical resemblance), fowl (chickens) or pets such as cats or dogs to us humans with disastrous consequences.

If a simple mutation was all it took, this would have happened already. Please stop fear mongering.

Since the main thread is about dogs, most(all?) dog pathogens are very much incompatible with humans.

In other words: there are almost 8 billion humans already. Birds are an even higher number. We have an enormous amount of pigs and all livestock animals you mention, plus pets. Pathogens are multiplying all the time.

The fact that we only have a handful of examples of diseases that jump species and infect humans should tell you how difficult this is.
Your body is metabolically active whether or not you're asleep. You can definitely lose weight during the day. It's possible to burn an entire pound of bodyfat in a single day with sustained aerobic activity. It's not even difficult to lose 5+ lbs throughout the course of a day from muscle glycogen and corresponding water loss. Even on rest days, I find that I am sometimes lighter before bed than I was when I woke up.
She got the attention of Aftonbladdet¹ because she protested on the first day of school after the holidays in front of the Swedish parliament, which is in itself something that any newspaper would have picked up – especially because it was in the midst of an pan-european heatwave which in many places resulted in the highest temperatures of the century.

Her own words on this are far more interesting: https://www.facebook.com/gretathunbergsweden/posts/recently-...

¹:https://www.aftonbladet.se/svenskahjaltar/a/G1AL4q/greta-15-...
But what if the life of an animal is better when raised for slaughter than in the wild? This isn't true for all farms, of course, but what about the animals raised with plenty of food, space to roam, and others of their species to socialize with?

It's tempting to say "Killing is always wrong," but the meat industry is more than just the moment of slaughter.
a lot of that is water weight, I almost always have to average a weeks worth of weight to get a stable reading on the weight changes. I also, gain like +2lbs if I eat a salty meal the night before.
Well, maybe if the world listened to actual climate scientists, Nobel laureates, NASA and its satellite data, or even freaking Al Gore, we wouldn't have come to this.

But people didn't listen - or rather, enough people didn't listen, and now we have to listen to a young autistic teenager girl berating us for sitting idle while the world burns (metaphorically speaking), and IMHO we all deserve it, and you'd better get used to it, because that's not even the remotely worse part of the climate change.
"we" didn't agree. Some people before us imposed the rules.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-way_speed_of_light#General...
What I experienced on a 7 day water fast
Quite to the contrary my friend. I have been running businesses my entire life.

You must have missed the part where I said they won’t do it.

In business there’s often a huge gap between what you should do for a higher cause and the reality of staying in business. A simple example of this are car companies. I guarantee you all of them want to go electric. I also guarantee you they know they would go out of business if they rushed into it right now.

In the Uber/Lyft case the greater good is to take a stance that favors free markets. However, as you correctly point out, this would come with potentially severe consequences.

My guess is they might take it to the courts. Long term, they’ll move to self-driving cars. In the end the outcome for drivers will be worse. Which is what often happens when government sticks it’s paws into a market.

Same will happen to the rental market in CA.
Lots of ambitious people in a certain laboratory at a research Institute needed money. Some convicted sex offender gave them money. Why should they refuse?
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> I think the manufacturer was severely prosecuted by China

I would like to think that. I would not hold my breath.
College football was bigger than pro football for a very long time, it wasn't until the 60's when pro football became more popular.

It has nearly always been the way it is now, big business.

72,000 capacity stadiums built in 1927 aren't built for school clubs to play in. Stadiums like this were built for schools like Michigan because the sport was big money.
I don't think it's bizarre to say that urban planning that prioritizes walkability is 'better'. Sure it's opinionated which may be taboo these days, but is it a bizarre opinion? No, I don't think so.

Of course there are plenty of American communities that I'd describe as highly walkable, but even then you have social matters to contend with, such as rampant "stranger danger" paranoia and lawsuit culture that, in America, have some school district in walkable communities forbidding students to walk to school for liability/paranoia reasons. I don't think it's bizarre to describe communities without those two issues as 'better.'
Paywalled, but that interview does appear to exist[0][1].

From the looks of things, Asia Times is HK-based, but the confusing whole online/dropping-online-from-the-name-who-are-they-now-exactly (last paragraph in introductory Wiki-text) makes me wonder...

[0]: https://www.economist.com/business/2019/09/12/ren-zhengfei-m...

[1]: https://www.economist.com/business/2019/09/12/a-transcript-o...

[2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia_Times
Except for the fact you spend most of your time in the real world.

I can probably think of a million different uses for an AR display.

What’s really missing is a good way to interact with that display. Voice recognition and hand gesture recognition need to improve.
So what’s the good decision?
Of course not. I don't think there's anything in my comment that would suggest that.

My comment was explicitly about: inhumane acts done to apprehended migrants and building technology to apprehend more migrants. Those seem very connected.
I see threads like this one with similar sentiments every now and then. I personally have opposite opinions: I don't feel lacking at all in social interactions.

- The current (remote) company I work at has been a remote company from the start and has been running for 2-3 years as such before I joined. The remote work culture is established and we have regular video meetings (basically every day; not the same ones / same group of people each day of the week though). In this way, I don't feel it to be any different than working in an office really, as far as interactions with coworkers go. (And indeed, Slack is on for the entire work day as well)

- On the personal side, my wife is full time taking care of our baby at home, so I actually have even more family social interaction than before I started working remote. For example, I get to have lunch with her and our baby multiple days of the week (and dinner every day), which would not have been possible working at an office. Also, I don't have the "shut down" problem because of this -- the demands of a baby force me to simply stop work at 5pm (when the nanny leaves) and I simply do not have a chance to do work or even think about it, until the baby sleeps at 9pm.

- If I wanted to see strangers or be around other people, a couple times a week I work at a coffee shop for a few hours in the afternoon. It's not like I talk to anyone there though, so it's purely for "being around other people".

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I feel like most of the issues other remote workers have with social interactions come down to probably two things:

1. Self-employed and having basically no coworkers.

2. Not living with anyone.

On 1, you can solve this by being at a shared office (like Wework but perhaps you could pick a cheaper one to save on cost?). On 2, either having a family or having roommates to live can be a solution.

I'm a bit surprised to see how many people seem to suggest that because they don't have coworkers they see on a daily basis, they don't have people to hang out with for fun on the weekends. My question for them is, who were their friends before they started working at an office? College or high school friends? Personally, friends that I hang out regularly with pretty much have never been my coworkers at any company, but friends I made either from college or friends I met through other friends. Maybe I'm an outlier, but I've never really been super close friends with anyone I have ever worked with. We have great working relationships while we work in the same company, and there are indeed a lot of folks I keep in touch with fairly regularly online even after I left those companies; but the actual people I meet up with on the weekends? Always personal friends instead of coworkers or ex-coworkers.
it was probably from vaping
For me, the most difficult part of transitioning from working for other people to working on my own pursuits was a lack of structure. No deadlines, no daily accountability to others, no ladder to climb. This is freeing, but makes it very hard for me to get work done.

One option I'm considering is converting as much of my work as possible to offline. I've already deleted social media, but even still, I find myself getting more and more creative with ways to distract myself on my laptop during the workday (for example: Posting this right now).

Wanted to feel out the community here, many of whom are in a similar position, to understand if others have struggled with this and any strategies available to me/education on the matter.
> while the world burns (metaphorically speaking)

Here's where you lose me. I don't see a world burning, and past predictions of coming apocalypse have proven false.

Yes, the world is warming. We're going back to the temperature of the world a few million years ago, still much cooler than it was during most of the history of life on Earth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_temperature_record#/m...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoOdhKYj8Bc
> A nearly empty stock exchange that no one uses. What a joke.

What a terrible, terrible website. No wonder nobody uses it. Who asks for your email a section that fills the entirety of your window without giving you any information as to what the site is (and no, "Enabling the market to tokenize and trade digital assets through blockchain technology." isn't any information):

https://www.tzero.com/

Looks like a basic beginner marking site template filled with absolute nonsense:

> Our goal is to make traditional markets more efficient, reliable, and accessible to everyone. We are creating platforms and products that overcome the limits and constraints of legacy market models by introducing new possibilities and making significant improvements to elevate the status quo.

Many paragraphs just like that, but none that really describe what it is, how it benefits me or how I access it.
Well this is not a very refined comment.

Plus, this clearly doesn’t qualify as postmodern...
The carrier doesn't have to get sick with the disease to spread it; most of our insect-transmitted diseases don't affect the insect in any manner after all.
It's about on par with what a farm hand would burn per work day at the beginning of the 20th century (unless I'm remembering that wrong). The human brain burns a lot of calories, but I'm pretty skeptical it can manage 6000kcal on its own.
Yet we are not ruled by Genghis Khan or Hitler. How come?
I don't really get why you are being downvoted. Honestly I kind of expected a US only app, which is by far more common.

But I have to say this is actually even worse. It's not just discover "music" in "your city".

Looking a it, it actually means, discover "mainstream music, in super mainstream venues" in "your city". 9-NINE-9 Venues for Paris?

GO take a gander a New York, with this app you can "discover", ZZ-Top, Madona & The Who for instance. Wow, what I have I been missing.
I remember from high school wrestling that you could almost always count on losing 1 pound of weight between night time and early morning weigh-ins. A little less if you went to bed severely dehydrated.
Once you understand that the author is talking about how people understand the world, it makes more sense. I actually see some parallels here to the problem of induction, i.e. can we predict the future by generalizing a finite number of past events. The answer is going to be "no", which most people would agree with if you engaged them in a dialog about the idea. Yet most people will act as if they can predict the future based on the past.

One example might be "I had a bad experience using $SOFTWARE, so if you use $SOFTWARE then our project is going to fail and it's going to suck". You're thinking "If X then Y", not "If X then P(Y) > n". I.e. you're thinking in a purely deterministic way, when the evidence really only supports a probability.

This way of thinking is ultimately due to a deterministic model of how the world works, rather than a probabilistic one.
That's an odd complaint to make regarding a "controversy" where one side kept being fueled by advocates in the pocket of the fossil fuel industry...
Don't they have to raise 3 billion at IPO to get access to 6 billion in credit? Seems like a major incentive to go for it and just annoy Softbank, especially cause one man controls the entire company.
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my hackernews was banned?
If I submit link, just only I can see.
but my friends can not find my link...what's happening?? please help me
They are Regus, but with cucumber water
What have they achieved, has anyone been blown away by them? For me just getting into VR thanks to Oculus Quest which I have to say is an amazing product for the price.
yes, and the article i linked to explores this in terms of ecosystems and the flows of material and energy between different organisms within the ecosystem.
But you can't ride 6 hours on the single tank of gas?
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> I found that you don't lose weight until you sleep.

Unless you stop breathing during the day, this is super absurd. All non-water non-food weight leaves the body as exhaled carbon (and I suppose also trivially as radiated heat energy). Or are you suggesting that people only exhale CO2 when they sleep?
I'm in real estate analytics and know that at least for my area, they used a real estate broker to find properties like anyone else would. Brokers know f-all about AI/ML/analytics (I tried to sell it to them for years all over the country and never got through to them. My fault or theirs, who knows.).

They might be using AI/ML in other ways but RE in general is data-averse. Especially in office, most cities have a small area with most class A space and local brokers know it like the back of their hands.
When the resolution gets high enough, AR could eventually replace every screen (phone, TV, computer).
Something you learn when you're trying to lose a lot of weight: The human body is disgustingly energy efficient.
> null terminated strings are a joke

I think that the null-terminated representation of the raw string data is a fantastic design; the best of all conceivable alternatives.
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> So you can fall victim to the protester's propaganda instead of the mainstream news propaganda?

Placing personal experiences and sufferings in the same basket as state/capital-sponsored propaganda and smear campaigns tells a lot about your worldview.

> It requires some amount of detachment to see the flaws in their ideas.

Or enough privilege to not feel directly threatened by their genocidal agenda.

> The things is: individual groups know why they are upset, but the movement itself is all over the place.

Agreed. Though i'm not sure it's a bad thing. That's the essence of a popular movement, compared to a top-down mobilization with a clear agenda imposed by a restricted group of people.

> more immigration control

WTF? I've never met people in yellow vests protests arguing for more immigration control.

If anything, there is convergence with anti-racist initiatives such as sans-papiers collectives, the gilets noirs, the Justice & Truth for Adama collective..

Sure, there's fringe groups of royalist/fascist movements trying to infiltrate the gilets jaunes with such agenda, but claiming the movement as a whole is even considering this is highly misguided.
Uber and WeWork are still major success stories.
I made a video about my approach here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hMVy4aKEZ4

But the gist of it is, you need to block distractions and be present in the moment, focusing on the task at hand. When I'm not feeling it, I use the Pomodoro Technique to get me started. Once the initial inertia is gone, I can keep going even without the technique.
For a blood pressure medication, 1 in 8,000 is not a small risk. Serzone, an antidepressant, has a similar risk rate for inducing liver failure, and was taken off the market.
So what you're saying is that they are not currently a tech company but that they intend to become one?
Are you talking about arterial contractions or something else?
This is circular reasoning. You essentially answered the question "Why is it OK in one context and not in another?" with "Because it's OK in one context and not in the other."

To break the circle: Why is web advertising categorically evil when print advertising isn't?
But this proves the point that speed should be used. C is the theorized speed of light in all frames. The experimental velocities of light also exist but that shouldn't be what we call C.
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I wonder if the point of this, is to have us weigh getting "brand name" more seriously. There is no sensible reason to pay a premium for brand name if the generic is chemically equivalent.
Again, it wasn't us offering the reward in this instance, it was the review site.

But generally I think it's fair that you should not take code school reviews very seriously.
> Not only that, accusing TypeScript of being "unsophisticated" is just dumb.

Probably, but the thing you are doing doesn't accuse TypeScript of being unsophisticated but of having an unsophisticated type system (these are as different as describing a person as being short is different from describing them as having short hair.) And, yeah, a type system that lacks soundness, lacks consistency, is overly complicated and poorly abstracted, and uses improper paradigms can fairly and succinctly be described as unsophisticated compared to one that does not have those shortcomings; the descriptions you point to may be more specific, but are not more legitimate, nor are they more appropriate when the context isn't a detailed dissection of the language.
This doesn't make any sense. If there is an oddity its in saying "THE speed of light." THE is what makes it singular and begs the question "in what direction?" The answer is in any direction. But that doesn't mean direction is not important. If somebody asks you for THE velocity that is a nonsense question. If somebody asks you for A velocity they are asking you for the speed in each direction. Even in 1D, where the units of velocity and speed are the same, these are still not the same concepts because velocity can be negative to signify the direction of "backwards" so there are two possible velocities of light even in 1D.
strong athletic performance drives alumni donations, that’s it
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