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ES Modules have dynamic imports (https://github.com/tc39/proposal-dynamic-import). The proposal is at stage 4 and is available from Typescript 2.4. We're on version 4 now so I'd expect Deno to have it.

I'm not sure what you mean by "bad practices like include files" so I can't comment on that.

I've found most Javascript developers prefer the await syntax with promises to using callbacks. It gives the code the appearance of being synchronous with the ability to do things more asynchronously if you need. I haven't encountered many who actively prefer the callback style. It gets unruly fairly quickly.

I can't see optional type annotations ever being added to Javascript. They would have to be checked at runtime which isn't something I'd imagine browser vendors wanting to implement.

The feeling that I get is that the standards committee is trying to bring Javascript to be the best dynamic language it can be and if people want more comprehensive guarantees then there are excellent tools like Typescript which give that option.

The fact there have to be multiple implementations of the standard in the various JS runtimes makes it a hard sell to evolve Javascript too far.
The article was superficial. The comparison is good though. It invites asking why the response was what it was in 2001 and is what it is in 2020.
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I think the term for that is "Shaving the Yak" https://seths.blog/2005/03/dont_shave_that/ (I am not associated with this site)
Not everyone has willingly given their social graph to Facebook.

Facebook builds shadow profiles on non-users and then fills them out with, amongst other things, data it gets from their actual users that they didn't no they were sharing.

This is particularly sneaky when Facebook has used dark patterns to trick app users into granting them permissions they don't strictly need for service.
> I do not like spending time on things such as choosing which router to use,

Build the app in such a way that you can change it. Or just use react-router.

> wether we should write class-based or functional components

Functional

> Or wether to use dispatchToProps or hooks.

Hooks.

But I see what you mean, React's idiomatic patterns do change. Thing is, if you have a class based component you can still use it in amongst your functional hook-based ones. It's still compatible.
> If the nation becomes to much of a dystopia I will just use my most powerful vote "my feet" and take my labor to some other nation

At some point you might run out of nations to go to.

I consider the place I currently live in (subjectively of course) to be the best in the world. The problem with that, with being at the top of the world, is that there is nowhere to run. If things get worse here, everywhere else is most likely even worse. So, for better or worse, I have to stay and defend my rights here.
I had to google what on earth HBD was. For others (from less wrong)

>... HBD (Human bio-diversity, the claim that distinct populations (I will be avoiding using the word "race" here insomuch as possible) of humans exist and have substantial genetical variance which accounts for some difference in average intelligence from population to population) is true, and that all its proponents are correct in accusing the politicization of science for burying this information.

I'd just note that noticing differences between races, eg black people are blacker is not racism really, it's more discriminating against races.
There's a point where negative trolls is a sign of you being on an important path.
With the core factor being that there are more people than the water supplies can support. The solution here is a one-child or no-child policy, just as in China.
They are imo very different services and both have trial time.

Test them both and decide for yourself.

I personally prefer nvidias service because I actually play games in my steam library. Stadia has few games and you're always forced to use their services. No way to play locally even if you have decent hardware
> The biggest problem with Artvee is that they don’t link to the source of the image

That is why Open Clip Art[0] is much better place to get Public Domain vector art.

[0] https://openclipart.org
The point here was specifically about secretly recording converations in a jurisdiction where that is illegal. If you'd tried to use recordings like that in your two suits against big coporations, they would have been thrown out by the judge and you would have put yourself at risk of criminal prosecution into the bargain.
It seems that the index has dropped. All searches are getting 503 as a result right now: "Not Ready".
Show HN: Zepel 2.0 – Go from customer requests to shipped product
Hi Hacker News!

I’m Gautham, one of the founders of Zepel (https://zepel.io). Last year we launched Zepel on HN and we got a tremendous amount of feedback and as well as our first bunch of paying customers.

Over the past year, based on the conversations with our users, we have been fine tuning the product and filling the missing functionality gaps.

While talking to our users we realised one of the biggest pain points with building software products is deciding what to focus on next. Yet the end users of your product are providing those very signals through multiple customer facing tools that your organisation uses. We felt that to answer this question effectively teams need the ability to get data from multiple tools that they use such as Intercom, Zendesk, Canny, Github Issues, etc to prioritise and plan work.

That’s why we have launched a new aspect to the product called Zepel Streams.

Streams lets you consolidate customer feedback, feature requests, bug reports, and even internal requests from several sources, prioritize, and align your teams on the desired outcome.

As a part of this launch, our tracking & execution side of the product will be renamed to Zepel Squads.

We would love to get your feedback on Zepel! Thank you.
That’s awesome news for us!!!

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It also eases restrictions to water access, in some distant future
Allowing governments and corporations to be that filter is incredibly dangerous given how much the interests of those institutions and individuals can diverge from yours.

Though admittedly, it might not be much worse than the current system (the interests of news orgs definitely diverge from yours).
I'm not saying that they fired Gebru because of this reason. I'm saying that's why they wanted the paper pulled. Dean says as much in his statement - that the paper lacked the context that explained new efficiencies and what Google was doing to solve these problems.

I think Gebru's reaction, the ultimatum and the email, were what led to her firing. Curious what you think the reasons to fire her were.
Yes standalone, all languages have a runtime, even C.

It gets packaged inside of the executable.
Your comment is somewhat of a non sequitur.

First, if you look hard enough, you can see traces of the hand of government in almost anything on earth, including any market.

In practice, government meddling is a matter of degree and kind. The dose makes the poison. There are some markets that are free enough of interference that we can fruitfully analyze them as 'free' markets.

Second, what do you mean by 'try to game the market'? In general, markets are sustainable in the long run without government interference (and usually actually more stable this way).

Interactions in markets often behave like the famous Prisoner's Dilemma. So, yes, for a single interaction it's profitable to cheat the other guy, but repeated interactions tend very strongly towards cooperation.
Maybe not from them, een if you get your fair share of recommendations (at least I do), but certainly about them. And that is attention for anti-vaxxers as well. The moment traditional media stops being after clicks and treating reporting like entertainment will be a very big step in the right direction, so.
Same here, and I've also noticed the library churn is a problem: Heroes of Might and Magic 3 and Neverwinter Nights both have had official Linux ports/releases, and neither of them run on modern Linux distro's because of library incompatibilities (in the case of NWN, it's because of libSDL, don't remember the issue with HoMM3).

Even my recent purchases on GOG where there's plenty of native Linux to be found, I usually download the Windows version because WINE is a more stable platform in the long run, in my experience.
Separating IG from FB does not put anyone out of work. Nothing gets shut down. FB are extremely profitable, and that almost certainly continues

In the last paragraph, I was trying illustrate a point. With monopolies of the past, the primary concern was that the services continue to operate somehow. EG, when Bell was broken up, the danger was that phone/telegram services would be harmed. Before that, the danger was that steel production would be disrupted and downstream industries harmed.

Facebook is a monopoly in a marketplace of extreme abundance. We have lots of social media, messaging, photo sharing, etc. There is zero danger of shortages or meaningful "consumer harm," regardless of what happens to FB.

Even if antitrust does harm FB, the only stakeholders at risk are FB employees and investors. There is no systemic risk, downstream risk, consumer risk. All the risk is contained within FB.

This doesn't mean FB should be killed. It does mean that the scale tips strongly towards antitrust. On one side, we have a lot of risk. On the other, very little.
When a private company owns one of the most basic resources for survival, then they have the ultimate leverage over you.

Privately owned water is being extracted from a region and then sold. They have no incentive to sell water to those who need it to survive, except if they also accidentally make the owners more money.

One basic consequence is incredible human suffering and an extreme amount of power imbalance. Then, it is a matter of time and critical mass until things get ugly and violent.
Plus one.
Who is SharpAI? This post is very much giving off the vibe of being a personal project but judging from their website[0] it's a Chinese company that's behind it.

Besides, the claim on their help center page that

> SharpAI DevKit is the world's first video camera that can run machine learning models and perform inference on devices

is not true at all. There are countless other companies offering similar products. (Which I'm not going to spell out here because I don't think technology as dangerous as surveillance AI deserves advertizing.)

[0] https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u...
Romans extracted tons of resources and used plenty of people as slaves. Arabs annihilated any culture that was there before and replaced it with islam and a lot of people died in ottoman invasions. What exactly did the French do to your country that was objectively so much worse than what any other invader before them did?
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MDMA works on what's there, it doesn't conjure up what was clearly not there in you at the time.
This reminds me of the science fiction novel The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi. From the Amazon description:

"In the near future, the Colorado River has dwindled to a trickle. Detective, assassin, and spy, Angel Velasquez “cuts” water for the Southern Nevada Water Authority, ensuring that its lush arcology developments can bloom in Las Vegas. When rumors of a game-changing water source surface in Phoenix, Angel is sent south, hunting for answers that seem to evaporate as the heat index soars and the landscape becomes more and more oppressive."

Highly recommended read.
> "very fine people"

https://www.politifact.com/article/2019/apr/26/context-trump...

The exact quote:

Reporter: "The neo-Nazis started this. They showed up in Charlottesville to protest --"

Trump: "Excuse me, excuse me. They didn’t put themselves -- and you had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides.

So. Trump admitted that the neo-Nazis are very bad people, but the group ALSO had some very fine people.

To Trump supporters or "enlightened centrists", this is proof that the left is also deliberately distorting the truth, but you're missing the point.

The point isn't that Trump drew a distinction between the Nazis (who were bad) and the non-Nazis (who were good), and therefore he didn't call Nazis good people.

The point is that there people marching with Neo-Nazis are not better than Neo-Nazis.

If you have a political position and you find yourself attracting neo-Nazis, you have to take a long hard look at what you're doing.

This is the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_German fallacy. Silently and tacitly accepting fascism because you benefit from it is still fascism.

So in conclusion, yes, Trump called Nazis "very fine people". It's just that you and Trump don't consider those people Nazis, when they are.

> "Trump told people to drink bleach"

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52407177

The exact quote:

"And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning? So it'd be interesting to check that."

Pointing to his head, Mr Trump went on: "I'm not a doctor. But I'm, like, a person that has a good you-know-what."

OK. First of all, let's start with the fact that Trump has a Cult of Personality. His supporters don't just love him, they TRUST him implicitly - more than any other authority figure. More than other politicians, but also more than DOCTORS.

An idea from Trump matters more to his supporters than an idea from any medical expert.

So. You have Trump "just asking questions" that if a disinfectant can be shown to knock out the virus on a kitchen counter (and at that point there were COUNTLESS news articles about how to protect yourself from the virus by bleaching and disenfecting all your things. He goes a step further and says maybe there is a way to do the same by taking the same disinfectant INSIDE the body. Finally, he says I'm not a doctor, but I know things. Which basically seals the deal and confirms he thinks it's a promising idea.

So, no, he didn't say the words "MAGA NATION! Go buy bleach and drink it!"

But he did say that he believes that: Disinfectant inside the body could help with the virus through injection or something like it.

It is a plausibly deniable one, but it is an endorsement nonetheless.
The effect is real, and more comparable to insurance than the free market thing you mention. If you are a water supplier and you sell your water through futures with e.g. a 6 month duration, then you know for certain that you will be able to sell your water for that price for the next six months, and if the price of water drops substantially, you have six months to figure out how to pay your employees, because it wont hit you until six months later.

Of course, if the price increases, then you don't get the profit that this would have otherwise produced. That's the price of the insurance against low prices.
He is showing that more people (per capita) die of Covid19 in the U.S. every day compared to the total deaths per capita in some other countries.
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Of effective Russian manipulation? Yes.

Of any real collaboration between Trump and the Russians? Yep.

(I means it's not technically zero evidence as there's evidence of most things, including flat eartherism, it's just tiny compared to the counterevidence or even the complexity penalty)
Malaysia: 393/31530000 = 0.0012%

Vietnam: 35/95540000 = 0.00003%

Thailand: 60/69799978 = 0.00009%
And this is HN already. The attitude of the general population is often worse.

I do remember early HN and even early reddit being much more pro-market. I wonder, assuming my perception mirrors a real change, whether that's down to changes in individuals' attitudes or to different people making up the bulk of the communities? Are we just going mainstream?
And it’s fine. Boston Dynamics paved a way with research and prototypes and some company will come along and commoditize it.

My point was that the economic culture in the US supports and this kind of innovation. No other country - maybe barring China, can do that.

I’m not praising the US as a country either (infact I’m moving to Canada). The US has deep flaws but it’s one redeeming quality is industrial innovation.
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> As rjn said, it is also a way to lure players to Linux.

It has the opposite effect (on me at least).

> I've personally switched three weeks ago, and I'm not looking back: every game I want to play works, ranging from almost flawlessly to just perfect.

"Works for me" logic. Every game you want to play works. The games I wanna play don't, or they do so with resorting to tonnes of hacks. In the end I just say sod it and reboot in Windows.
It happens with everything: markets, politicians, unions, revolutions... It's easy to find bad (really bad!) precedents which affect lots of people and this creates very strong opinions. Although I agree it is sad, it's also very understandable.
Why do people eat less potatoes during covid?
What about iron ore or gold?
The problem with NAC is it causes nightmares in some people. Is it OK to take it in the morning rather than before going to bed?

By the way it's worth mentioning NAC is the same exact substance like in the ACC cough pills but can be bought in bulk powder 10 times cheaper.

Many people take it (as an extremely potent antioxidant) regularly but it's not clear if prolonged supplementation can prevent cancer or cause it.
Facebook doesn't even let other apps access the social graph if users approve it.

You can only briefly see which friends have also already signed up.
At best I can see Google throwing like a year or two worth of some Google One tier service as compensation if they kill it.
Yes, let's take away one of the few remaining tools to grow your wealth available to everyone under the guise of protecting the public.

They cut commissions to 0 industry wide and taught a generation about stock markets and options, which was previously knowledge reserved mostly for wall street.

Imagine if we had access to VC level deals too, like $50k in an early round of doordash that is now worth $80M? Why should we want to go in the opposite direction?

The line between gambling and investing is very very fuzzy. We’ve even seen recent stories of people gaming literal lotteries to tilt the scales towards a win. You cannot ban a tool that one person uses for gambling without also banning others who use that same tool for investing. I’m sorry but I’d rather have those tools than have them taken away because someone else is irresponsible with them.
Sabine Hossenfelder has a great quote about this:

> Science tells us what situation we are in and what consequences our actions are likely to have, but it does not tell us what to do. Science does not say you shouldn’t pee on high voltage lines, it says urine is an excellent conductor.

http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2020/09/follow-science-nons...
What this deno feature does is not AOT, but simply packaging the JS as an embedded resource in the executable. JS is still parsed and compiled at runtime.
this is the strongest signal yet that we're heading for a disaster as a civilization. if water can't get to people, people will get to water, or at least try to.
Desalination at scale is the solution.
The latency is actually affected more by the codec you’re using. (Surprisingly).

If you make sure you’re using vp9 hardware decoding then you shouldn’t notice it- I didn’t (and I’m right in the middle of the two main European DCs and nowhere near a google PoP)
There’s so much stuff on a Linux os.

Seems a bit of a stretch to say that providing a bunch of command line utilities gives operating system naming rights.
No it doesn't solve the chicken and egg problem. Because the games are just being tested to work on proton.
Human industry and agriculture needs lots of water. The numbers are fairly large even for individuals.

Humans themselves need fairly small amounts for direct use like eating, drinking, hygiene.
The same holds truth for powerful companies. Even more so: While a powerful (democratic) government can be controlled by voters, powerful monopolistic companies can't if the government is weak.

Now I get the issue with a over-regulating bureaucratic government, but the real world is more complex than 'powerful government is bad'.

> In the mid to long term money will move to the person allocating it most efficiently

Is that so?
It's surprisingly difficult to find data for previous years. I think we need a bigger picture, including the data for 2021 (when it has passed).

I found one CDC number of 12% excess deaths in the US this year. It's not obvious if that is an extreme event or not. I know for some other countries there were also big events in the past decade, but before 2017. The nature of averages is that some years will below them and some years will above them.

Here is one criticism but I don't know if it has merit, I only found it by googling for data of older years and I don't have the time to dig into it right now.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/10/covid_probl...
A lot of people that enjoy anime-style games are unhappy with some of the censoring that Sony has done on the PlayStation. I expect that they will bungle this up as well.
Then why are they not massively ramping up ICU capacity? Surely the 'cost' of doing that is less than the 'cost' of shutting down huge sections of society?

Why don't we have the same lockdowns when influenza threatens to overwhelm hospitals each year?

Where is the focus on public health interventions such as mass Vitamin D, Vitamin C, Zinc supplemenation, as well as seriously dealing with obesity (banning or taxing added sugar) and air pollution (banning or taxing coal and oil)?
The smoking gun of bad faith on the part of Stanford:

> The family did not trust Stanford. School doctors, Hodson says, had diagnosed her foot pain as inflammation and told her that she wasn’t risking further injury by playing. Medical records show that an independent doctor subsequently reviewed MRI scans taken by Stanford and determined she had a stress fracture.

Just despicable people. Competitive athletes are already under an intense amount of pressure to play while injured - lying to them about their health (when they aren’t even getting paid!) is horrendous exploitation.
How do you know there's not enough water supplies?

In this case, it sounds like what's needed is better city planning and more equitable distribution of water. I don't know the specifics here, but I suspect there's plenty of water but it's probably being tied up in industrial applications.

Also, instead of letting the market decide where to build houses, why not build them where there's infrastructure to support them, instead of building them where the profit is highest?

Also, have you even considered what a one-child policy entails? It's forcibly sterilizing or aborting pregnancies.
Thank you for sending this hopeful message.
This has environmental consequences.
You probably think that trading organs is immoral as well?

There's plenty of alternatives to any specific water, just use some other water. (And if you really want to, you can make water from oxygen and hydrocarbons.)
Probably one said it is both. But in real life the direction especially in firm and totalitarian countries are really affected much more by the leader.

Not sure about trump. You look at the way hus sect of state work abd you wonder whether it is trump or in spite of trump sometimes.

And he gave you a good example of migrating from California to Texas, not because of Trump or Biden.

But I would blame xi for all the human violations in Hong Kong and U and T etc. It is not a democracy. So is firm or many firms.
I might try GPU pass through. Proton is too much faffing and I stream games a lot on discord which barely works on Linux.