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What are the main benefits of WebAssembly over asm.js?

I understand that asm.js was a subset of JavaScript that allowed the compiler to create faster code. For example because it could be sure that variable types do not change during runtime.

But what do we gain with WebAssembly? Faster download+compilation times? How much faster?
Yep! It's a completely portable target and fulfils the promise of “compile once, run anywhere”, although how well it runs depends on the particular browser.

(It is pretty amazing you can compile C code to something that actually runs on multiple machines, it's very nice.)
That's not really true. With JS glue code (including many libraries already written) Wasm modules can access anything JS can do. E.g. there are Wasm demos showing access to WebGL2, audio generation, camera/microphone, HTTP, storage, gamepads, ...
Not true. It was the guy who originally registered the case, but he didn't actually investigate it, that is in someone else's hands.
I'm not sure I agree with the author's policy prescriptions, but the figures on income growth among different segments are interesting. As much as we might be falling behind the top 1%, we 2-20% folks are still pulling away from the rest and that has important implications. A thought-provoking read overall.
In middle and high school, I lived just outside the curiously squiggly border of the nearest library, and they didn't offer a card at any price. I don't think I'm alone in that. Amazon would have been amazing.
I'd would disagree with that quip. Not everyone interprets things the same way. Two examples, religious texts and the corpus of laws.
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There is definitely an impact on the battery. The FFT part is well optimised (thanks to the Accelerate framework). What is costly is mainly the shader... and it really depends on the shader. A very simple shader is usually less than 5% of the GPU usage (according the Xcode Instruments, and on a recent iPhone). However if you do a lot in your shader it's going to be much more costly.
Very cool. This was an interesting paper on synchrony in the brain, and how it's related to consciousness - https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms10340
I sometime have Old timers nostalgia and think about all the video store owners, postal staff who delivered telegrams, phone switch operators, dusty mom and pop stores, ceiling fan companies and encyclopedia sellers who have been put out of business by rampant corporate greed of Netflix, Gmails, Skypes and Amazons of the new age. At least Coal Jobs are coming back. Yipee.
Absolutely. Going throughout life without a breakthrough psychedelic experience is like going throughout life without having been in love.

As for water being conscious, we're 99% water by molecule count, or about 70% by molecular weight, and we're conscious. It seems rather odd to me to think that the main constituent of our bodies wouldn't be taking part in our consciousness. From there it isn't such a far leap to think that there may be something that it is like to "be" water when it isn't part of a human being.
This is being blown out of proportion. Vulcan's Stratolauncher is not the future of launch; if this thing ever manages to leave the ground (with a payload), I doubt it will host more than five-to-seven launches throughout its lifetime, and that's a generous estimate.

This vehicle is going to be incredibly expensive, compared to both other air launch options and dedicated smallsat options. Although this can change, the current plan is for Stratolaunch to use OATK's Pegasus-XL payload, which provides an indicator for cost. Pegasus-XL launches are incredibly expensive ($337.3K per kg). Now, this is due to a variety of reasons (the L-1011's incredibly high maintenance costs, OATK's expensive labor structure, low launch cadence). Vulcan will bear similar costs--the inefficient OATK overhead tied to Pegasus-XL, Stratolauncher is a one-of-a-kind aircraft and increasing maintenance costs (despite using 747 engines). Due to significant development delays, the company has yet to develop or execute a customer strategy. Depending on how much more PA pumps into it, the company will not be price competitive in the market.

For comparison, other small launchers charge ~$25K/kg-$41K/kg (e.g., Rocket Lab, Virgin, Arianespace), and most of these will be able to launch US payloads. Virgin's comparable airlauncher delivers slightly less mass (15 kg less), but is priced at ~$40K/kg. Virgin is already a leg up as it has engaged commercial, civil govt., and mil-govt. customers.

Lastly, it's worth noting that this vehicle still has significant work to be done--look at the wings in the picture.
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To Europeans the whole US "white" thing is ludicrous. Americans count Hispanics as non-White, and while a good percentage of them are probably mixed, a big group are definitely what we'd call "white". You guys would go to Spain and Italy and call locals "Hispanics", based on your definition, while no German (for example) would ever do that.
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I think the top 50 percent are really responsible for income and wealth inequality. Why should they have more than the bottom half?
Saw an article about this on The Outline a month ago, it's a more informal and harsher take on this

https://theoutline.com/post/1372/the-new-york-times-public-e...
To be fair, Sweden has only recently started becoming multicultural, so they might need some time to learn how to handle it fairly.
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What I found most interesting is his point about licenses and degrees etc. Most doctors need to start over that are licensed in other counties. Try getting a professional license if your a felon(even a drug charge).
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> I guess part of the explanation comes from the mirage that is The American Dream

No, it's much simpler than that: blacks, gays, guns, abortion.
> My only notion for healthcare is to change the incentives.

That's only a recipe for lobbying over what bureaucrats designate "wellness" and "disease".

The best way to fix healthcare is to cut out more middlemen. The person whose health is being cared for (or their loved ones) needs to decide when another $10k scan or $65k pill regimen is worth it compared to using the cash to pay off their (grand)kids' student loans.

If all of this is filtered through insurers, lawyers, and government officials, there is incentives to meet budgets and increase revenue, but there's no win for the actual people and families all this is supposed to be taking care of.
On one side, meritocracy is overstated. Low social mobility being the proof:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socio-economic_mobility_in_the...

On the the other hand, increased meritocracy is double edged sword, at least depending on what really "merit" is.
I own a .co.uk for my personal site.
I did have a .uk for a while, but it serves no purpose when I already have .co.uk.

I also owned FNAME.space, FNAME.tech and FNAME.xyz but never got around to switching my site to one. In hindsight, FNAME.space would be super chill.

But honestly, for a personal site, it really doesn't matter that much unless you already have a personal 'brand' to maintain.
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Exactly - these posts don't exist in a vacuum.

More importantly, the posts weren't written for HN specifically, but in the context of discussing the open web and WebASM. Within that community this reference will be pretty obvious.
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Definitely not. At $work, we use Params::Validate as a standard way to normalise and validate the incoming parameters.
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Greed? Consumers put those people out of business by opting for convenience and value (at least in the short term).

No one forced people to stop shopping at a mom and pop store, but why the hell would I when I can look up exactly what I want, research it in detail and buy it in less time than it takes for me to get the car down the block.
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This is awesome. Thanks guys!
> Efforts to redistribute wealth and opportunity from the rich to the rest does not benefit the rich

Only if you don't consider a benefit to ones descendants.
Javascript is like Perl: /foo/i.test('foobar') is valid JS.
Ruby is a direct descendant of Perl and borrows its regex syntax.
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On a rapidly developing API, that would be way too much churn on our front end. For an externally facing API, I completely agree.
Yes, faster load times. Also, a more sensible target language.
A lot.

There's a talk by Alex Danilo from Google IO 17 explaining it in detail.

Here, I'll link you directly to the part where he starts explaining the differences on a technical level:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v4E6oksar0&t=11m24s

Another part is that I suspect it makes maintaining a good JS compiler easier, because all of that asm.js code can be removed. I'm sure the browser vendors are happy about that.
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Scary story, but if the police would have done some kind of break in into his apartment, wouldn't they just break the door? Or do they usually find a key to open with?

But.. I kind of understand the suspicion against someone who tests positve for explosive residue and claims to be religious.

This is kind of an unpopular opinion, but when someone tests positve for explosive residue (I don't know how common it is though) it just seems reasonable to have extra precautions in place, but if they searched the man and all his bags probably common sense should take the upper hand and let him on the aircraft.
He may (or may not) be contradicting himself, but the argument isn't wrong.

By hoarding wealth, the richest prevent their own wealth from growing (out of risk aversion and greed), and they end up either voluntarily transferring wealth or it's taken from them by an angry underclass. You can see why (after the fact), they would've preferred the former. Posted this yesterday but Acemoglu and Robinson's Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy goes into this in depth.

http://neweconomist.blogs.com/new_economist/2006/01/book_rev...

Besides, it's really nice to be wealthy, but wealth can't protect the wealthiest from getting murdered by someone lacking mental healthcare or getting radicalized because they have no other option. Thus spreading the wealth does help everyone.

Also, you are misrepresenting what he said re Britain and the US.

I am British by birth, but I have lived in the United States since 2012 and became a citizen in late 2016. There are lots of reasons I have made America my home, but one of them is the American ideal of opportunity. I always hated the walls created by social class distinctions in the United Kingdom. The American ideal of a classless society is, to me, a deeply attractive one. It has been disheartening to learn that the class structure of my new homeland is, if anything, more rigid than the one I left behind and especially so at the top.

The only thing he's saying is that while Britain has a society with obvious class differences, the US has those differences hidden. It's not that it took years for him to figure out cause he's a clueless dummy.
Javascript has regex literals

/foo\sbar/i;

Is the same as:

new RegExp('foo\\sbar', 'i');
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Go's regex implementation is inferior to Perl's, feature-wise. For performance Go eschew's a certain amount of backtracking as far as I remember. If you want Perl regex compatibility in Go you have to add a PCRE lib.
Good opportunity to make their donations go to a charity. They can feel twice as good!
No. We already know that the planet will undergo drastic changes in the next 100 years.
You have the full Web API, yes, but it's limited compared to native, although sure, it's nonetheless very capable.
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I live an hour's drive away from Italy, and it doesn't seem ludicrous to me to notice that people have less European ancestry south of the US border. Although this holds increasingly true for the south of the US itself, as well.
Many wisdom teeth removals involve "digging them out" where the gums need to be cut open and stitched back together. I was put under general anesthesia and given Oxycodone for a few days, and was very glad to have it because it hurt like hell.

If the teeth have come in enough though, they can be treated like regular extractions. They are still painful, but generally much less invasive / potentially complicated.
Sorry for the late reply. My work has been mostly business applications and web site backend stuff, and I am happy to continue doing it. But I also like to learn native mobile app development (bothe iOS and Android) to expand my skillset.
> I kind of understand the suspicion against someone who tests positve for explosive residue and claims to be religious

This does not excuse them not giving him anything to drink for 18 hours.
> I believe it would be much more challenging for the compiler to predict these branches statically.

Why do you believe so? "Branch prediction for free" is a compiler literature classic, and was published in PLDI 1993.
Fun fact which I heard on a conference about gaming: Vihart (who ncase collaborated with) worked together with Bret Victor.

Disclaimer: not sure if memory serves me right though O:)
I read it, was disappointed that article does not deliver insights that title is promising and made comment in civic duty so others don't have to read it.
Well, DirectX fostered multiple generations of gaming on Windows.
WebAssembly and PNaCL always seemed like a hack. A very elegant thought-out hack, but still a hack. It required a 64 bit OS but could only ever operate in 32 bit space.

Should have been dead on arrival because of that fact alone. For something that was trying to bring C/C++ and video games into a browser setting a 4GB max on memory should have been a non-starter.
> I have no opinion about Perl as a language but I like how rich the ecosystems is for that sort of project.

CPAN was way ahead of the competition - it was elegant where other languages would require you to manually download dependencies archives and wrangle them like a barbarian.
We all instruct and abstract, but imprecisely, because the people we're dealing with can either fill in the blanks, or they're inclined to agree with and follow us even if we're wrong. I remember one of the first things my programming teacher said was: Computers are stupid. They can only do what you tell them. That's a hurdle.
We're all mongrels: http://web.stanford.edu/~learnest/les/mongrel.htm

More to the point: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/11/opinion/the-myth-of-a-whi...
Yup. It’s been a massive help to me for managing anxiety, insomnia, some minor chronic pain, and a predisposition to alcohol abuse. It’s not a wonder-drug but it comes about as close as I personally could ask for.
DevOps duh

In all seriousness I'm glad with these changes. I'm paid more to be NIX sysadmin, with minimal working knowledge of AWS/Azure/GCP.

All hail buzzword!
I am personally a fan of the "as->" macro, but I like the way you can embed a threading macro within another - never though of that.
Is anyone else in games development here? If we are looking to run the game at 60 FPS, we have 16.67 ms per frame to do everything required to run the game. Because of this real time requirement, a decent amount of profiling is typically done on each game. I typically see that the frame time is getting split up over a whole array of different sections of the game, i.e.:

- Calculating skeleton animations (updating bone positions, sometimes skinning vertices too)

- Clipping geometry in the scene (finding out what things are inside/outside the camera frustum, etc.)

- Processing game logic, things like AI can be quite costly, so much is game dependent

- Walking through all the geometry that needs drawing and issueing draw calls

- Decompressing streaming audio and sending it to a sound driver buffer/queue

- Stepping the physics world (integrating positions/rotation working and resolving out intersections, etc.)

The difference between a non optimized, and an optimized build, is often 5 FPS and 60 FPS, and optimizing a single hot file or function would not get the game running anywhere near 60 FPS. I think the idea that optimizing compilers aren't required is completely laughable, but then again I only have one perspective from the games development scene - maybe someone else will reply and say they make AAA games in C/C++ and don't need compiler optimizations :)
will mostly be business applications and web site backend stuff. Also I would like to learn native mobile app development to expand my skillset.
I don't even. Besides not even understanding the point of the linked page, it's not even indented correctly and is a horrible example all 'round. And all the comments are spam.
Good luck finding Ioke jobs then.
There is a quote attributed to John Steinbeck (but see Wikipedia, because it doesn't appear to have a citeable source)

>Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

Regardless of who said it, it captures the American attitude held by some "You may some day be flush, why would you vote against your future self and raise taxes on him?"
Yes, and it usually comes with free refills.
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Generations, or longer, just like everyone else.
I don't mean the technical differences. I mean the benefit. What will be the gain for the user of a web app?
This is a good point I hadn't really considered - for the massive attacks typically there are pretty thorough write ups about exactly what it does, etc. so that maybe reassurances enough.
Thanks for the information and for being so responsive!
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How much faster? I would think gzip should even out most of the difference between a text based and a byte based code.
I own FirstnameLastname.com as well as Firstname-Lastname.com. I used to have a FirstnameLastname.info as well.

I've seen a lot of people using .me for their personal site as well. Not many use .io because it's costlier compared to other extensions.
While I would love to live in a more equal society, history shows time and again that government efforts to redistribute wealth mostly destroy it. We should try to devise systems that prevent power from centralizing in the first place.
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Wellness is easily measured. Life expectancy, sick days, patient surveys. The fight happens during rationing (bureaucratic triage).

So you'd eliminate pharmacy benefit management companies?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmacy_benefit_management#Li...

Or are you saying eliminate insurers (insurance) altogether?
So it would be a huge no no if I have part of my data pipeline in GCE with rest in AWS.
Yes, it was a convenient (one nice block of the table) and admittedly not statistically honest sample.

That said, even if we include the whole of US history (that whole wiki article) it's still an average of roughly 1/100 as many people dying each year of terrorism compared to opioid deaths. Even if we include the whole of US history terrorism deaths, it's still about 1/10 the number of terrorism deaths than opioid deaths just in 2015.
That's currently impractical with large rockets but there's one smallsat launcher which looks like it's making a serious bid to launch that way.

http://www.zero2infinity.space/bloostar/

The low pressure lets them get away with toroidal tanks, pressure fed booster engines, and a relatively large faring. Or at least that's the plan, they haven't launched anything close to orbital class yet.
To each their own, but I can't imagine a CLI being more convenient than the charles / fiddler GUIs for the kind of things I did with them.
It seems there is this effort to get C/C++ code performing fast inside of a browser... then at the same time there seems to be an effort to get people to stop coding in C/C++ altogether and switch to something more memory safe.

Go or Rust for example. Also, I watched a talk from DConf and saw that D is adding memory safety as well. You need to mark any part of code doing pointer arithmetic as "system code" or something like that.

I think it's a shame one couldn't have happened before the other. I wish something like D or Go or Nim or something else would have won. Then there would be this effort to get that language fast on the browser.

Is anything I'm saying making sense? I don't know enough about WebAsm, is it really tied tightly to C or could Go or Rust or some future version of statically typed Python become a first-class citizen?
They also got a guy that zips around the place at speeds he should burn up in the atmosphere to be fair though
The point isn't to get higher up, the point is to get out of the damn atmosphere so you can use wider bells, lower chamber pressure, and lighter weight tankage.
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My mother who was born in a time when typewriters were an innovation has just finished her highschool online in a program that lasted 2 years.

She had to fight all her way from not having an email to do homeworks in video.

She worked extremely hard 4 to 6 hours a day...

Now she is enrolling in college...

Hang in there you CAN do it..
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I think it's a class/culture thing, not a skin color thing. Hispanic implies you speak Spanish at home, likely to be an immigrant, maybe 1st or 2nd generation to be born in America, and your food/holiday/overall culture is different from the old "white" American one depicted in old TV shows and movies.
That list of cars isn't the list of most popular millennial cars, it's the list of cars that no one except young people will buy. You're right, the GT-R, R32, WRX, IS-F, and Magnum aren't a "normal person cars", they're mostly cheap high performance cars. The other half of the list is cheap, ugly SUVs. That list is a list of unpopular cars that for various reasons sells slightly better to younger people.
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Who has 65k cash to toss around like that? :)

If the doctor can't effectively predict what benefit said scan or pill regimen will provide (50% chance of 10 year life extension,90% chance of 2 years...? not even getting into quality of life), how does the consumer make informed choices? This approach devolves to if you have money you get care, if not, you don't, regardless of need or efficacy. Similar to any other market.

There or some easy decisions to make in medical care (set the broken bone, stop the bleeding), but less so when it comes to areas driving price increases.

Adding layers is potentially problematic, as is removing them. Single payer and no-payer are attractive solutions due to ideological simplicity.

I wonder if a tax funded provision of care rationed similarly to the organ transplant system would be workable...
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