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ES4 had a bunch if problems.

It didn’t address major language problems - the lack of unambiguous specification for the existing “specified” language, it failed to document the existing shipping language features that weren’t in the es3 spec. Basically it left a whole bunch of the spec ambiguous with differing engine behaviours.

On top of that, the spec was massive, included a lot of kitchen sink style accumulation of language features - I can’t recall which feature it was, but I do remember when some language showed a new feature it was almost immediately shoehorned into ES4.

And while a lot of the work was on static typing, more time was consumed by academic features of little real world value - object capabilities were a huge drain on committee time and complexity of many features.

The end result was that ES4 as a spec was far too large to implement, didn’t solve The very obvious major problems with the existing spec, and didn’t actually provide much in the way of features that people were asking for.

Incidentally the reason we have for(of) in javascript is because that would be ambiguous with the type syntax designed in ES4. The reason I couldn’t use for each was because of the other spec this article talks about: E4X.

Both of these were language specifications pushed by Mozilla and a few academic PLT folk with little-to-no interest in other implementer feedback.

At this point even ECMA has retired E4X (it’s been withdrawn, or whatever language ECMA uses for a spec that no longer exists)
It is absolutely possible to start a business without any serious loans, or at the least with "normal" business loans which do not involve any ownership. Hundreds of thousands of small and medium-sized businesses do this, and have done it for decades.

But the are some severe limitations:

1) You may not scale as fast as you'd want to

2) You may be competing against businesses that ARE funded, and can undercut you

3) The setup period may be very long. If you're gonna fund it all yourself, that may take year and year of saving money. This if obviously a huge problem if you've discovered a niche with lots of potential RIGHT NOW.

The biggest difference between a typical startup business, vs "classic" type of business, is the speed and scale.

(With that said, I don't think the race to bottom by funding/VC arms-race is a good thing.)
I am pretty sure that was poor design, not poor testing procedure. One of the other iteration definitely did failed due to poor procedure.
It's also relevant to demonstrate now that this virus too hasn't been made in the lab. The "lab origin" is a claim that some like to spread on every outbreak, even in spite of the fact that virologists know that nature produces the viruses very easily and there are no facts supporting anything else this time too.

From the abstract:

"Our phylogenetic analyses date the origin of the pandemic lineage of HIV-1 to a time period around the turn of the 20th century (1881 to 1918)."

At that time humanity didn't even know what the virus really is -- they just knew that something in some liquid transmits some illness. The most advanced lab at that time could only get that liquid using the filters.
Welcome! I highly recommend the study - even though the numbers are low, the data is very interesting.
My recollection was that there were modules, packages, and namespaces. Which was kind of a problem.
While not perfect free market/capitalism pulled up more people from poverty than any other system. It is usually about who you compare yourself to. If you compare yourself to 1% of the most wealthy country in the world then you are most likely going to look poor. But if you compare yourself to the bottom 1% of the poorest country you most likely going to turn out sickly rich. And when you do the same comparison to the poor in the far past then it gets even more crazy.
Sure, one can speculate that. There is quite a lot of devil in the details, though. One thing that is a bit unclear when it is 'all curved space' is how one would ever get spin 1/2 particles, i.e., non-integer spin particles. E.g., in string theory one has to invent a 'fermionic string' to get them otherwise one only gets integer spin particles. Also it is not clear how 'multiple black holes' are going to be a stable configuration together.
Nice way to intentionally misinterpret the stats

Unless most of your teachers are living in nursing homes, your numbers are way off.
Personally, I would never use a framework anymore for the frontend. I did some simple projects in vanillajs and the sheer simplicity of it and being able to understand the whole code beats any framework anyday.

Like most, I started with React/Vue etc and realized that I was trying to learn a whole language and ecosystem on top of JS and that was why i always found frontends to be so complex. There's simply no comparison.

I wrote an article on my learnings on using vanilla js to create spa. If anyone wants to read it, its here https://dev.to/rishavs/making-a-single-page-app-in-ye-good-o...
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It completely ignores everything from inventory to cash management from invoices being paid late.
As a student, it sounds more and more necessary these days.

I am a student from Rural India, studying at an "engineering" "college" (obviously in urban area). The minimum cost for getting into engineering degrees is too much for rural income scales here. And the quality of education is PATHETIC (everything is rote learning based and everyone is trying to game the system, because edu system is so mechanical).

Since the formal education is so costly and ineffective[0], many people like me would benefit from a commoditization through online medium. I started learning programming one year before I joined the college in Bachelor of Engineering (CSE) program. And having seen the teaching methods and rat race, I am pretty sure I can learn better if I go on my own. But there are too many stakeholders in the ineffective process, that would prevent such a thing from happening.

But even if they conduct college through online classes for the next year, I would be happy, because I would save on accommodation expenses by staying at home :).

[0] The ineffective four years of education is probably why many people complain about Indian SWEs. The entire thing is rat race for sustaining jobs - then mechanically clearing exams, copying GitHub repos, lying on resumes etc... If all of these people chose their subjects with genuine interest, about only 10% would be studying in CSE and "Indian SWE" would've had a better image worldwide.
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A defining feature of a black hole is that because of it's gravity nothing will escape it, not even light. This clearly doesn't hold for atoms. They can be bombarded by photons and electrons and split and fused.
> In my entire career I have never seen more confusion and misunderstanding about how to use frameworks than I have when working for companies listed on major stock indexes with multi-billion USD market caps.

Is it actual confusion, or just difficulty in interoperating with the libraries/frameworks that large companies often already have?
In this context the epicenter is where something is most intense, not where it starts. New York City and Seattle peaked roughly around the same but NYC was seeing ~10,000 new cases a day at one point whereas King County was seeing 600 a day at most. Maybe if you normalize for population size and density it's comparable but epicenter is colloquialism that usually implies absolute numbers.
This might be hard to hear, but bottled water is a luxury. A gallon of bleach can make _a lot_ of water safe to drink. Source:
https://www.epa.gov/ground-water-and-drinking-water/emergenc...

I've done quite a few wilderness expeditions lasting up to 3 weeks. You couldn't bring enough bottled water with you. Sometimes I was filter-pumping water from clear streams, other times we had to remove solids from muddy water, boil it, let it settle, filter it, then bleach it.
Or mastadon! Whitehouse could have its own server, and would not need to worry about sensorship
Oregon has established a program where a representative 100,000 people statewide are being tested on a regular basis to monitor the spread.

https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/05/how-oregons-s...
Sorry... Trying to understand. Are you saying that all these little kids died of aids? How did they contract it? Most kids are 3 feet tall by age three or four. Also, why so many deaths in 2002? Very effective drugs had been widely available for a long time.
The stated attitude of a company as public as SpaceX is carefully tuned and measured. The actual attitude internally is likely to be substantially different.
I thought he was referring to democratizing / commoditizing that education and not about removing the requirement.
I've been using Node Red for automation using home assistant (instead of their built-in automation) and generally like it.

I'd like to use it more like IFTTT, but haven't really found any good uses so far since I was never a fan of IFTTT and connecting all my various accounts to one service. Do you have any examples of what you use it for?
That's something different: it allows doing gradient descent on the space of paramaters for programs, not on the space of programs.
What is the "bait" in that photo?

If it is another animal, that would make me feel very uncomfortable about the whole operation.
But this is a solved problem since... well, at least since the beginning of internet. I managed 1000s of Linux & BSD systems over the past 25 years and I have scripts that do all that since the mid 90s that automate everything. I never install anything manual; if I have to do something new, I first write + test a script to do that remotely. Also, all this 'containerization' is not new; I have been using debootstrap/chroot since around that time as well. I run cleanly separated multiple versions of legacy (it is a bit scary how much time it takes to move something written early 2000s to a modern Linux version) + modern applications without any (hosting/reproducibility) issues since forever (in internet years anyway).
https://sqlite.org/about.html

"Think of SQLite not as a replacement for Oracle but as a replacement for fopen()"
Not being a fan of mosquitoes or malaria I wouldn't mind giving gene drive a go https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/08/magazine/gene-drive-mosqu...
> Your own house isn't an investment because you always need to live somewhere

Ehhh, yes and no. Plenty of people who bought nice-ish houses in the Bay Area in the '70s and '80s sold them in 2014-2018 and retired outside the bay with a nice extra pile of cash.

You need housing, but you don't need a crazy expensive house in a crazy expensive area.
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I feel like you're leaving homophobia out of the equation. Asimov was ashamed, and there would have been a backlash, because society associated AIDS with gay men. If people had really believed that he'd got it through surgery, there wouldn't have been a bad reaction.
Who said they are "piggish" in private? Certainly I did not and note that I myself am in this category.

What I said is that overweight people tend to overeat in private, not in public. This is a fact.

The cause of overeating can be debated of course. Eating is a primary instinct, we are not very rational when it comes to our primary drives and on the market there are certainly foods engineered to be overeaten. However it is undeniable that T2D happens because people eat too much. And before 1950, people did not get T2D so often because a majority of the population suffered from hunger and malnutrition.

Humanity has never dealt with an abundance of food, especially an abundance of food high in calories. It's also not wrong to say that binging happens most often in private. Even if the reasons for why that happens are debatable.

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> "The evidence from clinicians and people who study this is pretty clear: genetics is a massive factor. There are monogenic forms: if you have the gene, you will get diabetes, often in your 20s or 30s, and there is nothing you can do about it."

We agree that genetics play a big factor.

However we disagree on the inevitability — the super low, almost inexistant rates of T2D in the 19th century disagree with you and evolution doesn't happen this fast, it takes thousands, tens of thousands of years for a gene to spread throughout the population and this assuming that it confers a massive survival or reproductive advantage to influence selection (e.g. ability of adults to tolerate lactose in Europe), otherwise it can take hundreds of thousands of years.

Our genes did not change and we did not suffer from T2D before the 20th century, the far simpler explanation is that our environment changed, our genes cannot cope with it and the totality of evidence we have points to "energy poisoning", aka people eat too many calories.
The perverse incentives created by a lucrative market in covid19 blood - and the potentially diasterous consequences - should be fairly easy to see.
But you're operating modulo 2^256.
Why? Animals eating other animals is quite common. Even herbivores are known to eat other animals (horses like snacking on baby chicks).
> Sure, but part of the issue is that we can make accurate predictions of pretty much everything we can readily observe today.

Actually there are a lot of predictions we can’t make today. Stuff that are very important

1) Why do most young people do fine with COVID-19 but some apparently healthy people do not?

2) How exactly do proteins fold

3) Will it rain tomorrow at location x at time x

4) when will my pet tiger decide to maul me?

5) will a drug with this molecular structure for this disease actually treat the disease?

We know a load about the basic building blocks. About quarks and protons and electrons. But once we get to more complicated systems composed of these building blocks, we struggle to make predictions.

See for example the scrubbed SpaceX launch due to weather.

I am sure NASA and spaceX have scientists who are experts in physics, but they could not predict in advance that there would be bad weather on that exact day.

What we do now is make calculations on “spherical cows” and call everything else “chaotic” and “too many variables” and pat ourselves on the back for reducing everything to its basic blocks.
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See also [0] which was discussed here on HN [1]

[0] https://www.divio.com/blog/documentation/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21289832
Rather than ethically fraught body fluid markets, why not just pay people for 'missed work costs'? Sick leave is a perfectly reasonable policy that governments interested in public health should support.
Thank for highlighting this, it's hilarious - I could so easily imagine it as a short interdimensional cable bit on Rick and Morty.
I believe it's less of a concern and more of a thought exercise.
Any competent engineer without experience is more likely to figure out how setup and/or troubleshoot nginx than kubernetes.
Hey Canterbury, very intrigues with the idea of using a private blockchain for this purpose. I building exactly that as a service. Could we have a quick chat about what issues you had and the process?
It can't be that difficult. Look at Africa, for example.
Depends how much capital you have, and how profitable you are early on.

For most, its a harder path without. Growing fast with organic income leaves little room for risks (strategic/operational/extrinsic) and competitors with capital can outspend you.

Delivering a world beating service/product on a shoestring budget while spending on growth is even harder. Kudos to those that did this (Browserstack, Atlassian etc).
None of the things you listed depend on explanations outside of the realm of physics that we already understand. Theoretically with a simulator powerful enough and using the principles we already know, all of the items you listed could be solved.
SQLite is totally capable of delivering a good performance. The main problem is that you have to take care of efficiently opening and closing the file yourself. Naively doing it for every user/transaction will quickly put an end to your scalability plans and in fact, it is something you get with a DB server applications for free.

That said, it's strength is its simplicity and not its scalability. So if you plan to run a database server cluster, you probably want to look for other technologies. But as long as you are on a single machine, your SQLite performance problems are probably a case of 'you are doing it wrong' ;-)

So when you are talking about server-side, you probably don't want to limit your technology choice to a database engine that can not be clustered. However, if you are offering software which should be simple to install on a server (e.g. Nextcloud), providing an SQLite option is probably a good idea, because nobody has to care about DB-Server administration and connection setup.
Demonstrators attacking CNN streamed live on YouTube
A related thread from earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23349713
I think the problems you described are in two different groups though. The first group, is where we understand everything well, but we don't have the ability to track every variable accurately and record the amount of data required, in order to make good predictions. Weather falls into this category.

Then there are those like protein folding and animal behaviour where we understand the building blocks, but even of we could track every single building block there would be something missing for us to make predictions.
I agree it's wooey in many cases, and is used as a near synonym of miracle or magic.

But I think a good summary is that emergence happens when relations between things on a finer level of analysis become the things themselves on a coarser, higher level AND that these new things also have rich and complex interactions among them, making the levels roughly equally interesting, complicated and useful. Overall the bottom level is "enough" in theory but rising up the levels allows us to gain orders of magnitude more "practicality".

Sometimes by common sense we stumble upon a mid-level concept and then when we learn about the lower level explanation, we proclaim that the original phenomenon was "emergent".

Now it's a great (but I think not very fruitful) philosophical debate to decide which level has how much "realness", is the higher level just a convenient fiction, an illusion, a practical description and there is a lowest, rock bottom level which the universe/God really "cares about", or are all levels just as real and the whole hierarchy/ladder is just our conception,and not only can rising up the abstraction be an artificial action, but maybe descending lower can also be a illusory/non-natural and a result of our search for practicality and the rock bottom isn't really that real and the universe doesn't know to care about it.

Just as in math the naive explanation is we have fundamental axioms and we derive the higher level theorems from it. But in reality what happens is we know what theorems we want (to make things interesting or empirically useful) and then look for ways to structure the axioms to give rise to the "real" theorems.

Or, what view of a signal is more real and fundamental, the time-domain or the Fourier-domain? Both can be equally real or equally fundamental, and can give rise to equally interesting Analyse. Or perhaps not, and the time domain is what the universe cares about and has in its "source code" (which is probably a misplaced metaphor though) and Fourier is just for convenience...

Other times when making the relations into thing (reifying them) and vice versa we don't really move higher or lower, we stay roughly on the same level. An example is duality in graph theory (faces to nodes, nodes to faces) or in optimization (exchanging the role of variables and equations). And at the risk of sounding wooey, this is similar to the duality, non-duality ideas in Eastern philosophy, looking at the same stuff but interpreting "the gaps" as "the things" and vice versa. And then saying neither is more real, both are real and neither are, together they are real, separately they aren't etc. Maybe the levels are not a strict hierarchy, maybe they loop back, maybe consciousness is indeed such a feedback loop across different levels (a la Hofstadter), then you get to resonances in feedback loops and if you push it far it gets quite wooey. But it's still very differently wooey than some quantum healer fixing the resonances in your liver through the TV.
The evidence is good that Vit D deficiency makes covid worse. Avoiding that is more common sense than a crazy solution.

Re the lasting for years, Thailand where I am has gone from 3000+ cases to zero local transmissions. Mostly from basic stuff like masks, testing and quarantine. I hope this can be replicated in other countries.
A related thread from later today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23346858
I still don’t understand why we deny felons the right to vote while they are serving their sentence, so extending this to nonpayment of fines seems even more arbitrary.
Yeah, because I need "strong encryption" for my family chat.

Up yours, Zoom. First you installed unauthorized web servers on people's computers, then you transmitted our data to Facebook.

Fuck Zoom.
This comment breaks more than one of the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Would you please review them and stick to the rules when posting here?

I think you're running into the notice-dislike bias: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... People with opposite political views have exactly the opposite perception of HN.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23356296.
I see all the data is stored in one JSON file in GitHub. [link redacted]

Can I ask, why JSON, and why one file?

I'm interested because I'm currently slowly working on an Open Source tool for this use case - community data sets in Git. However I think it's better to have one file per entry. (Easier to edit, much less chances of merge conflicts.) Also while it's currently based a lot round JSON (so we can leverage several useful existing tools like JSON Schema) I'd like to add a YML/TOML/MD-with-meta-data option later as I think that's easier for humans to read and edit (and also because I've already seen several Git repos that follow this format).
didnt ledger cli try this with dot ledger that was used by hackclub?
In an alternate universe, hackers could all have been rollerbladers. I want to live in that universe.
Google 'dry sex and AIDS' first. You might have to broaden your definition of normal.
And in Africa most transmissions are between heterosexuals. But you never hear the same rhetoric about irresponsible promiscuous heteros.
octopuses are predators.
Comparing the test rig to a full rocket is more like comparing 4 liters to 3 inches. They're simply not comparable.
That licence only applies if you want to use the term “Project Gutenberg,” which is trademarked. As noted at the top of that page, the actual book text isn’t protected by copyright at all, and you can do anything you want with it,.
Because then there’s less incentive to give your blood, so it doesn’t solve the problem at hand.
I think there's a difference between understanding a system well enough to make predictions, and recreating a system (a simulation) and then seeing what it does. Many times in history before the physics was properly understood, the best scientists and engineers could do was create some kind of "dry run" and simulate/recreate whatever process they were testing, and use that to predict outcomes of the real one. But actually being able to look at the state of a live system and predict what it will do next accurately is quite different.
That takes me back to a slide in my physics honours talk.

1935: Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen show that quantum mechanics doesn't make sense.

1982: Aspect shows that nature doesn't make sense either.
SpaceX's Prototype Starship Exploded in Giant Fireball Mid-Testing