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Good one. I mean actually planning a vacation.
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Mass transit is so heavily subsidized that if had to carry it's full economic costs, it would be unaffordable.

The light rail lines in my state (MN) don't even make enough from fares to cover their day-to-day operating costs, much less maintenance, and of course tax payers were 100% on the hook for initial construction - with a large chunk of the money coming from automobile taxes.

So yes, I would be fine with the costs of roads coming more directly from the people using them, but then we are going to do the same with transit. Deal?
Technically it is a Tolkien book. Just not the right Tolkien ;)
> E.g. there are Wasm demos showing access to WebGL2, audio generation, camera/microphone, HTTP, storage, gamepads, ...

All web API. nothing a Javascript app in the browser can't do.
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#3 isn't quite true.

Yes, this epidemic is new, but drug epidemics aren't. This one is likely more widespread because of widespread use.

But this is most pronounced in the US. Other countries with good-or-better access to healthcare don't have nearly the same problems as the US [1]. I think it lies more in the way we treat folks when they are sick: Turning to opiods instead of other drugs (a combination of ibuprofin and paracet/tylenol is a pretty standard pain treatment here). Not actually giving folks time off when they are sick and injured. Sure, you have the FMLA, but that doesn't exactly let folks pay their bills. We (the US) could also do things like talk to patients and/or their families about ways to handle the pain, what to do if the pain relief wears off, prescribe differently so that it isn't wearing off. We could make sure to have realistic conversations about addiction. And the drug companies could be upfront about this. Lastly, we could provide addiction help, treating it with time off in a manner similar to simply being sick.

[1]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/03/15/ameri...
Absolutely, it's one of his better stories. But it's not as if Christopher Tolkein has suddenly unearthed new material. He's gone and polished up some work that was published decades ago. The Tolkein literary estate is a money machine -- they've already published pretty much anything Tolkein ever wrote, no matter how disjointed or fragmentary. The tale of Beren and Luthien is well-known and memorable, and all the bits of it are in other books already.
I might be sleep deprived... but what exactly is this script doing?

You're making a copy of /bin/ls into foo, and sha256sum the copy and the original.

$ head -c 15 /bin/ls
$ cat > foo < /bin/ls
$ cmp /bin/ls foo
$ sha256sum /bin/ls foo

I don't get it.
I wonder if they considered a half-loop launch, toss bombing style. That way they could dump the wing, perhaps at a price of higher strength requirements.
Families making $200,000-300,000 lives paycheck to paycheck?

Sorry, but just what in the everliving fuck are they doing with that money? Burning it for warmth?
As someone who spent about 20 years of my life in the music business, and also happens to be an ardent Hunter S. Thompson fan who is frustrated with this clunky and inelegant quote being attributed to him, I feel compelled to correct this.

The original line, from Generation Of Swine, is as follows:

"The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason. Which is more or less true. For the most part, they are dirty little animals with huge brains and no pulse."

Granted, you did not attribute the quote to anyone in particular, and by definition it is a quote from someone, somwhere, but it seems worth correcting nonetheless.
What other arcane commands do I need to use to make FF work like Chrome?
I do what I can to keep my weight down (lots of fruit, veg, fish), exercise regularly (nothing excessive) and take an aspirin each day. It's kept my blood pressure down and alleviated the tinnitus to a level where it's hardly noticeable.

I don't know whether there have been any studies to link high blood pressure with tinnitus but, for me at least, there is some correlation.
... likely to run into the solid wall of upper middle-class resistance, even those that simply require a slightly higher tax bill...

What are the unintended consequences of this slightly higher tax bill? Does this writer not know of the Laffer Curve? The top 20% already pay the vast majority of income taxes in the United States And now he suggests they should pay more? Why not instead reprioritize spending, including cuts to programs that are proven not to work?

The "War on Poverty" has not resulted in any significant change to US poverty rates yet money is still spent on those programs. Farm subsidies, social security and Medicare and Medicaid fraud and abuse and the defense department's propensity to bleed money-- there are many areas that can and should be addressed before simply raising taxes.

And what about college cost inflation? College expenses have risen more dramatically than health costs. Could the influx of easy public money and loans have something to do with it? Look at the cartel's controlling textbooks and scientific journals! We lose our collective minds over Uber surge pricing but say nothing about $200 textbooks that were often written by professors working for public institutions. In universities you have countless Provosts and vice Provosts who pretty much add no value. You have administrators who simply administer other administrators. It's a racket of which the mafia could be proud. Adjunct professors barely scrape by while the "Director of Residental Student Diverisity Affairs" makes six figures. Many on the left like to complain about CEO pay yet let academia have a free pass to hand out titles and six figure non-teaching jobs out like candy -- all on the backs of students and indirectly, the taxpayer. If we want to expand educational access then the universities ought to start with themselves: cut the waste, lower the price. But they won't do that; the "liberals" in charge of universities actually perpetuate the educational inequality they purport to oppose. It certainly isn't conservatives in the Ivy League that maintain legacy based admissions or $80,000 per year price tags.

The problem isn't that taxes are too low, it's that government does a bad job when it comes to budgeting and fiscal policy.

I am not opposed to "left wing" proposals as much as I am opposed to "raising taxes and redistributing wealth" as the only means presented as the way to accomplish those proposals.

Zero-based budgeting would be a good start. Then every year the government can better allocate money rather than just continually adding to whatever the previous year's expenditures happen to have been.
Which is to say that they assume little-endian just like asm.js and modern JavaScript do. Architectures other than ARM and x86 are mostly dead so this isn't generally a huge problem except for the handful of die-hard Amiga users.
I don't understand why Mozilla is so obsessed with this feature that will be useable by 0.01% of applications.

What follow is speculation:

At guess they feel burnt after they lost the whole closed source DRM in the w3c spec battle. They realize that something like WebAssembly will become a thing in the next few years and that if they don't push super hard for a completely open solution from day 1 then they're afraid that Google, Microsoft and Apple will get together in a room and make a deal without them.

At the end of the day Mozilla don't only care about delivering a browser, they care about delivering a completely open browser, and they don't want their ability to deliver that to become more threatened in the future.
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On the other side of the coin, Thomas Midgley, the inventor of leaded gasoline, also invented CFCs.
It requires a different kind of appreciation than Tolkein's other works. It's more like reading poetry than a novel. You have to focus on the sounds of the names and invented languages and the archaic and mystical feel of the archetypes represented, rather than character or plot.
Sounds even more like the Japanese Zaibatsu.
The government can't be rational about what a balanced meal looks like or how tomatoes (fruit? veg?) fit in the picture.

There's a reason food lobbying groups exist.

> Or are you saying eliminate insurers (insurance) altogether?

I'm not saying there's an easy answer, but as long as all health transactions are paying for one party's health with another party's money, we'll have bad outcomes.

If the problem is that it's expensive to live, then let's talk about that problem (negative income tax credit, minimum income, optimize for cost of living, etc.) instead of trying to bureaucracy (private or public) our way into utopia.
Yeah - we need a Geiss port :) http://www.geisswerks.com/geiss/
While relative wealth definitely has value (mostly because it enables you to afford the labor of others), wealth itself is not fundamentally relative.

- Almost everyone today (in western, developed nations) has more purchasing power than almost everyone did 100 years ago. Doesn't that mean that everyone is more wealthy?

- As new technology is developed, Alice's wealth depends less on Bob's poverty, because she can rely more on automation and less on Bob's labor. This might cause tremendous problems for Bob, but that's besides the point. Bob can now (if he manages to prosper) become immeasurably wealthy without reducing Alice's wealth in the least.

- You could make millions of dollars selling farm equipment. It seems clear that, in doing this, you are accumulating wealth. But it is not clear that your success needs to be at anyone's expense. Presumably your customers are buying your wares because your product helps them build wealth too. If the market is saturated, your success might come at the expense of your competitor's, but that seems like a different phenomenon from the idea of relative wealth that you've described above.
>They broke the entire python packaging ecosystem with a one line change, then went to bed, and 10 hours later, no one has fixed it.

Shit happens. There are key open source infrastructure used by millions that just have 1-2 persons working on them (e.g. GTK+, at least at some point back), and others that are in a state of half-rot. The same for commercial software.

If your servers/business can't stand a day of downtime in the "packaging ecosystem" then its too fragile.
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Funfact: IBM Deep Blue v2 used the minmax with AlphaBeta pruning to defeat world champion Garry Kasparov. Most of it was brute force and the computer was so huge it had to be water cooled.

One of the moves that Kasparov accused was made by human (The bishop move if I remember right) was done by Deep Blue after a long thought but today, even a smart phone can come up with that move in few seconds.

Interestingly enough IBM for few years declined to release the logs of computer lines (especially for that moves) however I used to work at IBM and had access to the research logs. It was just mundane lines with this Bishop move as most promising line. IBM did later release the logs

Modern chess engines like Stockfish running on our phones are much more power than Deep Blue with both hardware and software improvements.
I agree that Ferguson protests and BLM and so on are reactions to power and injustice. Are they going to change the arc of history? Doesn't look like it. Trump may present himself as an anti-establishment figure, but his appointments show he's totally beholden to establishment figures. His policy proposals so far are the standard GOP spiel. Sure, people are angry but does anything change?

> If you are driving through a bad part of town and get mugged,

Rich people don't drive through bad neighborhoods. People who live in gated communities don't get hit by stray bullets from gang wars. I don't think appealing to the self-interest of rich people works here. They're already looking out for themselves, and the trendline is pretty clear.

> Immigrants will always be poor.

Look, are you're really going to argue that immigrants having bad teeth is the natural order of things, and not a consequence of the availability and affordability of dental care? (And what about the dental health of Nascar fans? Not class related either, I presume!)
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> useable by 0.01% of applications.

I think you will be surprised how many apps will use WASM in the future. I'm a C++ dev and working with WASM (and asm.js as a fallback) full time. It's going to be absolutely huge.
So money, gotcha.
Why not be a freelancer?

Work when you want to; earn market rent for your time; and balance your need for leisure time (which may differ from others') with your need for compensation (and, maybe some other gratification if you love your job).

We are all free agents, even if it doesn't always feel that way in a traditional job.
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I could not identify a clear editorial focus that would answer the question: Why would I visit Skimic instead of Reddit or Technmeme or similar news aggregators? Or to put it another way, what makes Skimic a more valuable use of my time than competing sites?

Maybe, instead of trying to appeal to approximately everyone, focus on building a news feed that is unique and strongly appeals to a narrow interest (think Anandtech.com versus Reddit).

Good luck.
How is putting pepsi ads between videos of people you care about any different than what Facebook does?
Looks like a good job.
IIRC this is also a way to reset the timer to entry in the public domain in some jurisdiction. They should be ashamed of using such a dirty trick.
I love this. I'd love to somehow find the balance between planning and spontaneity. Thanks for the insight especially for the value of booking way in advance.

May I ask how did you start gathering the list of all the things you want to see and do? Or even how did you decide on the destination in the first place?
Yes, exactly. The opposite end of the spectrum, but the same principle.
Whoa.

Internet Exploder was constantly evolving and multi-platform.

Did you forget IE ran on PPC Macs, X86 Macs, Windows, and CP/M?

IE updated... just slower than Netscape.
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Why stop there? Mega-corps will eventually supersede governments. When Amazon, Google, and Apple all have 10.000.000 employees, then "Waymo v. Uber" isn't just law it's a wartime skirmish! Employment will be more valuable than citizenship. Would make a nice dystopia.
Chrome is not open source. Chromium is.
As a developer I'm annoyed every time I enter "defined.in.hosts.file" in the address bar and Chrome does not believe this is a url but performs a search instead. Yes, I can define anything as a valid domain in hosts and yes that website exists on my computer.
> A slap to the face is always preferable to a knife in the back.

Offtopic, but I'd prefer a slap to the back than a knife to the face. It's more about slap vs knife than about back to face.
Certainly in my experience it's about 90-9-1; where 90% of the runtime is "cold", 9% is "warm" (optimising compiler is good enough), and 1% is "hot". I'm literally writing some code right now where -O2 pushes us from "not fast enough in the average case" to "just about fast enough in the worst case". I fully accept that things might be different in Web Development, but are optimising compilers really that common in Web Dev?
HHS doesn't actually pay medical costs with that 95%. They take a 5% cut for their own overhead and then turn around and pay a group of private insurance companies to provide coverage with the rest.
I read that as you fall into a black hole, there comes a point where the gravitational difference between your head and toes would be large enough to rip you apart. (Not that you wouldn't have other problems anyway :-) )

If they're as close to a decently-sized black hole as dramatic movie pictures require, I suspect they would be close enough for the separation not to be gentle at all, assuming their individual limbs wouldn't separate.
I think our current political culture would be immeasurably improved by everyone reading Illuminatus! and Foucault's Pendulum.
They probably also had that "bet" to be able to give their groups a reason not to immediately turn on a light in the dark. It's very distracting and ruins the experience.

On a smaller scale I see inexperienced campers seem to be dependent on using a flashlight for EVERYTHING when the sun goes down, even when just sitting doing nothing, or performing a task (like walking in a field) that could be done by moonlight.

We have to train this instinct out of ourselves.
Just type the quantity and units into google.
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Is the "parsing" what is displayed as "compile script" in Chromes profiler? That seems to take almost zero time. For example jquery.min.js compiles in 0.1ms here.
An interesting perspective, feels cynical to me. I fully support progressive taxation, free education, public transit, affordable health care and so-forth. I would argue that government is a service provider. We can't all be expected to maintain our own defense, so we do it together. When we are provided these services that are equal to or greater than the value that we pay for them, we are richer for it. There is no redistribution there. The more wealth you have the more valuable the local police force is to you. The wealthy need educated employees. Government is able to organize childcare services that keep low income workers in the workforce, that helps everyone.
I too have shied away from posthumously published books. I still haven't read Salmon of Doubt [0] though am a massive fan of Douglas Adams. From what I've read, he was a bit of a perfectionist. Not sure he would have wished its publication.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Salmon_of_Doubt
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Enough with the dead butterflies
much faster parsing

Isn't parsing super fast already? From my experiments, jquery seems to compile in a staggering 0.1ms.
Ok, but all of that data is on your phone and devices. You could theoretically train there.
A laptop ban would be a disruptive privacy risk
> The name escapes me at the moment.

You're referencing Greg Egan's "Permutation City", I think? http://www.gregegan.net/PERMUTATION/Permutation.html
Permutation City?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation_City
Why not Erlang?
> Even if thousands of developers from HN switch, that would hardly move the needle. Ordinary users just won't care about any of this.

Thousands of developers from HN make websites. If they switch to Firefox, at the very least, the websites they make will support Firefox. This won't necessarily make Mozilla commercially viable, but if people are really that concerned about it, they can donate to the Mozilla Foundation.
This may not be what you mean, but this comment triggered a thought. If it were possible to really measure wellness and reward or punish providers accordingly, the new "health insurance" would be a sort of reinsurance that such providers purchased to control risks related to their patients' health. No, it wouldn't be cheap, and yes, the costs would be passed on to someone.
Paying interest payments it seems.
> Clicking links and page loading feels similar; on Chrome I don't notice it, on Firefox I always do.

Because Chrome, by default, enables prefetching [0] (it loads links before you decide to click on them). Firefox will never do that due to obvious privacy concerns.

It's the usual "principle vs convenience" thing, where most people choose the latter.

[0] https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/1385029?hl=en
Ohio as a whole is a definite participation in the Opioid crisis, but to say Columbus is suffering from 'social and economic blight' is nonsense. The city is vibrant and growing, and is handily avoiding the mid-western living standard decay that's affecting the surrounding countryside.
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At least on iOS ad blockers are integrated into Safari so any native app using the Safari View Controller will use configured content blockers. That's why Facebook and others will continue to use the legacy web view.
Actually, LuaJIT 1.x is just that: a translator from a register-based bytecode to machine code using templates (small assembler snippets) with fixed register assignment. There's only a little bit more magic to that, like template variants depending on the inferred type etc.

You can compare the performance of LuaJIT 1.x and 2.0 yourself on the benchmark page (for x86). The LuaJIT 1.x JIT-compiled code is only slightly faster than the heavily tuned LuaJIT 2.x VM plus the 2.x interpreter written in assembly language by hand. Sometimes the 2.x interpreter even beats the 1.x compiler.

A lot of this is due to the better design of the 2.x VM (object layout, stack layout, calling conventions, builtins etc.). But from the perspective of the CPU, a heavily optimized interpreter does not look that different from simplistic, template-generated code. The interpreter dispatch overhead can be moved to independent dependency-chains by the CPU, if you're doing this right.

Of course, the LuaJIT 2.x JIT compiler handily beats both the 2.x interpreter and the 1.x compiler.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, various songs have been recorded about how soulless and money-grubbing the music industry is. Examples include Pink Floyd's "Have a Cigar", Billy Squier's "The Stroke", and Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Workin' for MCA".
If I understand it correctly it does include an early complete version of the story and a bunch of drafts and commentary of later drafts. So it is not simply a bunch of summary notes but gives the story of how this story was developed.

Perhaps not something that you would read directly after Lord of The Rings but exciting for those that are interested in learning more about his work and how it developed.

I'm guessing most of the content in this book (except for the Alan Lee illustrations) can be found in the History of Middle-Earth series.
I would beg you to look for a much more nuanced understanding of the people whom you oppose politically.

Attempting to reduce all the of the great Conservative/Libertarian arguments for not wanting top-down tyrannical centralized high-tax government that takes away liberty to instead being single-mindedly rooted in racism, homophobia, etc. may make you feel better that your opponents are irrational emotionally-driven zealots -- but you've so missed the mark on comprehending the people who oppose you that you're only helping to further the enormous divide of understanding that we have in politics today.
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I haven't noticed this myself, and I use both extensively on a daily basis. I currently only use Chrome for work because of Google Meet. Drives me batty that I don't have a choice there.
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