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JSDoc doesn't require any transpilation. It runs as native JavaScript code by using comments as type-hints. I can understand not wanting to use TypeScript, kind of, but not using JSDoc as well is honestly mildly negligent, especially when simply inferring types, i.e. being more strict about type coercion, is a massive boon to productivity.
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'Threats of violence'

'Threats of coordinated violence'

'Satire with violence'

Are all part of a type of information wherein we can make rules and try to apply them fairly.

Saying 'Twitter allowed this but not that' is besides the point - it illustrates that Twitter is either inconsistent or hypocritical or both ... but it doesn't abnegate the notion that policies can be crudely made to work.

If you straight up threatened to murder someone on Twitter, they'll take it down.

The problem of 'mass mistruth' is much more complicated, because of course, making the stupid claim that 'the COVID vaccines kill 50% of it's recipients' probably would normally be within the realm of protected speech - but when 100% of Americans are subject to such lies, 25% of them refuse to take the vaccine, and 5% of them want to get violent an overthrow the CDC & murder Fauci because he's 'killing children' - well it becomes a problem.

One key thing to understand that nobody here in HN wants to contemplate is that the 'commons' is utterly not a clearing house of information wherein the truth rises to the top. This is totally the opposite. The commons is an arena of populism where we plebes act on instinct and emotion, we chose the information we want to hear, we buy into the lies of groups and ideologues.

The truth is almost irrelevant, because it can only ever be contemplated in the context of legitimate authority, which is why we 'mostly trust' the CDC, Homeland Security, our Judicial system etc. etc..

'Coordinating Violence' is a problem that can be dealt with in all but the eyes of those wanting 'absolute free speech'.

But 'Lies and Misinformation' we must understand is actually a serious problem, and worse, there's no clear path to how we can solve this.

There's no doubt we don't want corporations, and not 'Tim Cook' making these decisions, probably not individual bureaucrats or ideological politicians ... we're all going to have to work hard to find something that works and that is fairly transparent and fair. FYI Apple doesn't want the headache of deciding who speaks and not - they just want to make money and not get into risky scenarios.
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Everyone and everything flies, and everything is automated with steampunk automation.
That's not necessarily true, it depends. For example risk parity is common knowledge but it still beats the market. You don't really need any secret sauce to use it effectively. You could do it, personally, and you would probably do well.

However if your strategies are well known people typically won't pay you much (if anything) to manage their money, because a bunch of shops will be offering comparable results with the same thing.

Continuing with risk parity: there are walkthroughs of how this works with code and math available online: https://cryptm.org/posts/2020/08/01/parity.html

Note the alpha, beta, volatility and Sharpe measures comparing a straightforward risk parity strategy to SPY.

It's not controversial to anyone in the actual industry that you can beat the market on a risk-adjusted basis. Very often the techniques for doing that are well known and can be levered up to safely beat SPY on a total basis with less overall risk. What's truly difficult (and secret) is beating the market by several standard deviations.
I think you should focus on the huge amount of garbage and carbon emissions produced everyday in the USA (biggest contributor to climate change), which is objectively a much bigger problem than this one-off event which media portrayed as some sort of catastrophe. It's "glass houses" all over again. Why should a nation of 350M people have ASAT capability in the interest of national security, but not a nation of 1.4B people? We're seeing what happens when power is concentrated in the hands of a few (Trump/Parler bans) and it cannot be allowed to happen at a geopolitical level, in the interest of world peace (it sounds crazy but it has worked post WW2).
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Although many celebrated the passing and "enforcement" of the GDPR, I consider it to be one of the biggest failures in recent times. I'd argue the situation is worse today, and so far, the GDPR doesn't have any teeth whatsoever. On one website this is the cookie pop-up "consent" message:

"We use cookies to provide a great experience. If you're happy with this, continue browsing"

Apparently that counts as an "explicit, freely informed, permission given" consent now?

I have found countless examples of websites sending data to facebook (including PII), simply by using XHR/fetch and a POST request, sending entire page URLs every time you navigate the website. I've noticed tens of requests to several domains that could be hijacked at any time and peoples information collected by a bad actor is they get the domain "totallynotspyingonyou.com"

If the GDPR was serious platform changes would've been implemented - similar to Apple's coming tracking permission - which should be standard on every OS inside the EU. Instead of relying on websites/providers to the right thing, the upstream systems (browsers, OS) should be designed around the laws instead. As it stands, Google allows their OS to collect an individuals entire address book, apparently that data structure can be parsed, uploaded and freely traded once somebody taps "accept", and if my data is included...Well tough shit for me I guess. Asking Google whom has got my phone number saved onto their accounts yields no response, yet if somebody puts my PII onto Google, I have no rights over it.

The "rights" the GDPR enshrined are nothing more than a empty, hollow promise - how many have had success trying to get information deleted? All I get told is it's "legal" as there's a "public interest" or for any number of reasons.

Regulators simply can't and won't keep up. Reporting Google is a waste of time, a regulator is unlikely to touch them, even if there is data Google won't provide in a SAR and take months to provide a response.

We need to embrace and accept data is going to be collected on all humans and kept for as long as the collector wants, and it can be sold, leaked, used and abused without you having any way to control it.

We're all just numbers in a database somewhere, your feelings don't matter, how it affects your life on earth is disregarded, ads must be sold, data must be harvested.

Welcome to 2021.
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I'm kind of concerned that people read this as satire but miss the most important part, namely the absence of concern about the safety and validity of the results. You know, the part where he stuck some statistical software in front of a database populated by a "motley crew" of contractors and wanted doctors to use it as a shortcut for making patient care decisions. The part where he implicitly compares the HTML spit out by his system to peer-reviewed work by professional researchers. The part where he is proud of "beating" a "record" for least discriminating meta-analysis.

Reading this story and talking about his marketing and product development process feels like watching Lovecraft Country and then then only talking about the time travel physics of it. There's something real and awful here, hopefully presented in a fictionalized or highly exaggerated form. The people in my social circles who mistrust tech and despise startup culture -- this is exactly how they see us.
Working in healthcare, engineers are liable for breaching data violations around health data. In everything from logging, storage and deletion of data, developers need to make sure that there is no personally identifiable information. There are plenty of other high stakes domains where engineers are certainly liable.
Star Timelapse and long exposure night photographers get annoyed by all the current debris, they need to clean up their photos from the light streaks. On the other hand, I remember reading about this town in the mountains that wanted to build a giant mirror on top of a mountain, so that they could prolong daylight in their valley.
Audio is always going to be a thing. As is video. As is text. As are books. And so on. It's not a zero sum game. People will continue to blog, tweet, and write books for us to enjoy even if lots of people are having a great time with podcasts or Clubhouse :-)
"In Europe, Speech Is an Alienable Right: [the European Court of Human Rights] upheld an Austrian woman’s conviction for disparaging the Prophet Muhammad."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/its-not-fr...

Is this really what you want?
People have been saying that since OS X first came out, and OS 9 was so buggy it had a famous cute bomb icon for when it crashed.
Ask HN: What do you read to stay up to date with economics?
I've been trying to find newsletter, Twitter accounts or websites that give perspectives on the future of the economy but I've been stuck with the likes of Bloomberg. Are there any sources for a deeper analysis of the economy? It seems like financial markets are becoming more and more disconnected from the "real economy" so market analysis is like reading sports bets.
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The same thing that would happen in other situations. If you and I can’t come to terms, we part ways and don’t do business with each other. If one of us is affected because of that, then one of us needs to reconsider how best to remedy or work around that issue.
Coupled with the infrastructure that feeds them the energy they need: they consume it in CO2 emissions.
> "There is very little invention going on."

If you said there is very little fundamental research going on, I would agree with you; but even putting together building blocks in a new way is invention. If you look at patents (arguably a unit of invention), most of them don't have fundamentally new building blocks, just existing blocks put together in new ways.
Poverty is one thing. In a rural location, indeed, even in many suburban locations, you also sort of have to make yourself go out for a walk/run/hike because you're not going to just organically walk from place to place. (ADDED: Aside from house/yard work/farming/etc.) I live in a semi-rural location (nothing like what we're talking about here) and there is basically no reason that I have to do more than a minimum level of walking on a given day. (Leaving aside how big a difference that makes in the scheme of things.)
Then you should absolutely know that pending deletion is not a black swan event. Can you talk to someone with some data in this space? You will find pending deletion -> restore is a surprisingly common pattern.

As to govt agencies - sure, many use .org and .com domains routinely. These do not get special treatment - and I do generalize my experience from .com and .org to these govt run websites without hesitation.

Despite ideas - just because a public agency is using these domains does not make them magic.

https://www.sfcdcp.org/

https://acphd.org/

to pick two domains within 10 seconds.

I'm going to stop here. Despite your claims that folks don't go into pending deletion - they do. I am responding to top comment - people fail to renew their domains on time routinely. I've seen it happen with some surprise in govt agencies (ie, someone in a dept spins up a website, and renews when someone complains its not working and they get permission to spend the money to renew - which is not instantaneous even for small purchases) as well.

All my points stand and I remain unconvinced by your claims that these govt agency websites can't expire (they do routinely), that pending deletion is a black swan event (it is not) or that folks don't fail to renew on a timely basis (they do frequently).
Mostly a question of simplicity. I don't want to spend a tonne of time maintaining a personal blog site if I can find a quick way to publish material quickly using gists with an editor (like Obsidian) which is tolerable ;-).

I've used Jekyll before on github.io, but am looking for an even lighter-weight solution (if possible).
Over what timeframe are we talking about depopulation?
A few points come to mind:

1. Good thing he wasted $40k that he actually had rather than $400k he might have borrowed. Of course you could argue that "no risk no reward", but still.

2. The idea itself seems to stem from a weird US-consumer-centric bubble. More specifically

* "Pain killers"? Those medications have different active ingredients with different effects, only part of which is some kind of pain (and not a single kind). Some are anti-inflammatory, some are analegsic etc. Those are really different things.

* Different people have different reactions to medication, even within the same group of active ingredients. One is better served by choosing medication based on past experience is similar situations.

* If it's not clear what you should be taking, you probably want to have a doctor examine the entirety of your symptoms and make recommendations.

* If some kind of medication is consistently superior to another for almost all people and scenarios, the superior one will likely drown out the inferior one in terms of availability and public awareness. The popularity of multiple kinds of medication usually (?) indicates they are preferable in different scenarios.

3. When I first saw what the novelty was supposed to be, I was unimpressed. I mean, ok, it's not trivial to do statistical analysis in R - but it seems like anyone with some R and statistics experience can do it. It doesn't seem like there's a lot of secret sauce. There might still be commercial viability here, but it's at best risky.

4. What was the initial business plan? Revenue model? Who was supposed to pay for what? Specifically, suppose one person paid for a recommendation for pain medication. Ok, so they got it - but it's not going to be a secret. It's now public.
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First, high frequency trading is using code to gain alpha in stock market trading. Tech expertise is more important than reading balance sheets in this arena. It may be illogical, but it works and are used by many high profile Wall Street firms.

Most people working in tech have sense of awareness, that things are not quite what they seem. That's why there are so many people in tech heavily involved in decentralization, crypto, etc.
It doesn't matter who you engage with.

If 10% of Americans are convinced that QAnon is behind the scenes running the show, and they believe that, and act on it in a variety of ways, then it's a huge problem.

I suggest with the election, COVID and QAnon together we are probably already feeling the results of mass misinformation.

It's an ugly problem because none of us really want to suppress people for saying something not technically true. I mean, who doesn't like a good alien conspiracy theory? Until it gets out of hand ...
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So long...
Twitter, Facebook, Youtube come to mind. The two that immediately come to mind would be Kathy Griffin holding Trump's severed head and Eminem shooting a Trump look-a-like. Neither were deplatformed for these graphic depictions / calls to violence, and one even reposted the offensive media in November.
Is there a state in Canada that doesn't provide single-payer health care? Because every state surrounding California would not be.
That's a recursive definition (estimate * 3) = ((estimate * 3) * 3) = (((estimate * 3) * 3) * 3)... But if you do that for a few years, "your honest and concise estimation" starts to grow because you've seen how it usually takes longer than expected, and your coefficient can approach 1.
Or maybe the legal team lied to the public and were truthful to the 50 different judges?
The essence of security is choosing what not to do
Well, there's a few groups: There's the true believers, and some of them are the ones waking up.

On the other end are the disaster capitalists who anticipated the chaos and planned on profiting from it.
Or for anything else? I don't know why people want to continue handing data to Google when things like Matomo exist
Seems flawed to me. When the individuals with genetic factors that make them Vit-D deficient go to the doctor, they will almost certainly be told to take Vit-D supplements at a higher rate than those without the genetic factor. This confounds the results and makes this type of study useless as it does not measure actual vitamin-D levels.
That's about 250 bare metal 64-core servers. You can get that elsewhere, and keep in mind per-core performance on bare metal is going to be higher than you get per-core on shared tenant VMs in the cloud (for several reasons). Those bandwidth needs would constrain you only to larger scale bare metal providers though, which would leave you with fewer options.

The problem sounds like it would have been database sync between locations, which is a major issue in multi-cloud. Most replicated databases are pretty chatty.

You're right though about deplatforming, and the problem is if you are providing a safe haven for a bunch of Nazis like Parler is you are going to be constantly DDOSed. That means you need a lot of DDOS protection, and high end DDOS protection is a significantly smaller market with fewer players than just raw rack-em-and-stack-em hosting.
Sometime all it takes is a mistep of a parent and kids are taken from them. There was a story in the UK, where single mom had to go to the job interview and agreed with a friend to come and babysit. On a day of the interview babysitter couldn't come in time, but promised to come a bit later, so mom decided to go for the job interview. Kid stood next to window, banged on a glass and cried as mom was leaving. Police was called and kid was taken from her and very quickly adopted by another family.
Ironically, it's hard for me to take this manifesto seriously because of the author's poor grammar. I found the awkward and/or incorrect structure of many sentences distracting and ultimately gave up after the second or third section. This doesn't invalidate the author's ideas, but it does suggest that writing style matters to at least some degree.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LruaD7XhQ50 is a pretty nice intro to the topic.
Just wanna say I'm sorry for your loss. It's wonderful you were able to give your kids a chance at a better life.
We should be helping all of society so that families have a low probability of getting into this state in the first place. I have seen communities with strong programs for kids, breakfast served at school, extended evening activities, free organized sports. All of this stuff helps shore up a problematic home life and gives points of contact for well functioning adults and kids to intersect with these kids lives.

Can you imagine being a child in a shitty home life, all you had before the pandemic was your school for being around people who didn't hate or at best were indifferent to you.

America needs new social structures.
White House releases 1776 Report
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/The-Presidents-Advisory-1776-Commission-Final-Report.pdf

Accompanying article here:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/1776-commission-takes-historic-scholarly-step-restore-understanding-greatness-american-founding/

This came out today.

Is something big coming?
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Getting tons of bounces in the last 48 hours for @hotmail.com, @live.com, @outlook.com and @msn.com. A lot of the error messages are just "smtp; 550 4.4.7 Message expired: unable to deliver in 840 minutes.<421 4.4.1 Unable to connect to remote host

Ive noticed in the AWS support forums several topics on this but there appears to be no way in my AWS account to submit a ticket because I don't have paid support but I think its a wider issue.
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What is the evidence that is convincing you that "we've now done the experiment [of free speech] in a big way and the results seem overwhelmingly negative"?
As I understand it, servers in the US are protected by American law. American security services are not allowed to aggressively surveil or break in to them, without a FISA or other warrant. IANAL.

But, foreign servers are wide open to anything our security services are capable of. No warrants or other disclosure required.

As these servers are in Russia, it will be Americans spying on Russians spying on Americans. Two for one!
But what’s the solution then? “We are going to forcibly expose you to speech you’d rather not see, for the greater good” is no less dystopian than just banning people.
Not to be obtuse, but some would say you're reversing cause and effect -- that the $10k and exhaustive background checks are the reasons that adoption has better success rates. I couldn't be less of an expert, but it's hard for me to imagine that the solution is as simple as "adoption is always better."

It does absolutely seem like there are many wonderful homes out there who aren't able to adopt because they aren't quite well-off enough, or the couple is gay, or some other factor that a reasonable person could look at and say "this shouldn't disqualify you from adopting."
My degree is in mechanical engineering but I've been working in software for 4 years now but I worked on industrial control systems for a number of years before that.

My answer: to an extent. Broadly speaking, software engineers do _basically_ the same thing that "real" engineers do - learning patterns and applying the useful/applicable pieces to the problem at hand.

The fundamental difference that separates software engineers from the rest is the consequence of failure and the culture of caution that comes with it.

If you're working on (non-embedded) software and you ship broken code to prod, chances are your consequences range from embarrassment and some angry emails on one end to a major financial loss at worst. With most other engineering disciplines, the cost of a screw-up _starts_ with a major financial loss and worst case? Honestly the sky is the limit. Fatalities, environmental ruination, loss of critical infrastructure, you name it - there are enough case studies on industrial horror shows to keep you up for the rest of your life, and in engineering school we had to read a lot of them.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't some of the Parler violent content and speech that violated the TOS still on Twitter in the form of screenshots? Or have there been efforts by big tech to remove them too?
> I'm also more financially responsible when I have cash

It's the opposite for me. It is much more difficult for me to keep track of cash expenses while budgeting and it is easy to forget individual transactions. So much that at this point if I ever take out cash, I consider that money spent as far as my budget is concerned.