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The most important reason is that Javascript can focus on being a programming language again, not a compile target, and WASM can focus on being an efficient compile target, but doesn't need to be a language. The WASM spec can be extended independently from the Javascript spec, this enables faster introduction of new features (and the process is actually working!).

WASM is especially important to close the performance- and power-efficiency gap that exists on mobile between native applications and Javascript applications. Writing a JS app that doesn't use garbage collection, and doesn't get re-jitted while running isn't trivial, in WASM this is guaranteed. Only the initial parsing is burning a few more CPU cycles compared to a native application, from then on, the difference is small or non-existent.

In the end, WASM is also an important counter-force to the closed ecosystems on Android and iOS. It is the key to have a system that's both open and reasonably secure.

I am not concerned about the view source aspect, but this is actually an important topic to the WASM designers. Browsers have a "view source" on WebAssembly, which shows the ASCII representation, and this is surprisingly readable, since WASM is a higher level representation than traditional CPU assembly (the name WebAssembly is a really poor choice IMHO).

In the end, shipping the high level source code to client devices, and compiling the code there is a massive waste of resources, it's better if this only happens once on the developer machine. The "open source aspect" needs to come from the developer by hosting the original source code on e.g. github, but even if developers want to keep their code closed, the WebAssembly view-source provides enough info to reverse-engineer their code, and with time, better disassembly tools will be created which can recreate a "highlevel representation", stuff like this also exists for traditional executables.
It costs more to live the same lifestyle you had from your home country. If you cook and eat local food, don't indulge in expensive imports, use fans instead of aircons 24/7, drive a moto and not a car etc. Too many expats move out here and live in expat ghettos where it is expensive. Move to an area that is at least 10km from the nearest Western Style coffee shop and you'll find it's a lot cheaper. Sadly, two weeks ago a chain coffee shop opened across the street from the university where our office is, so there goes the neighborhood....

As for electronics? Stay away from ecosystems like Apple, they are expensive everywhere. Twenty years ago, our Thai office used Macs because we needed to run Japanese software that only ran on Macs. We needed to go to Penang (in Malaysia) to buy new Macs or get them fixed. But the prices there were about the same as in Hong Kong. Was it as easy going down to Golden Shopping Center in HK? No, but life was a lot more pleasant and overall a lot cheaper. We moved shop to Phnom Penh five years ago and haven't had any serious problems running a cloud service here except for the power outages.
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"Bicameral" board structure in a B-Corp w/ appropriate mission. A blocking vote's worth of "stakeholders" which have predetermined portions of a holdings company (Ben Cohen, thnx!)

Accept capital the same, yet shareholders only have x% instead of x+f*users%.

Make revenue via advertisement, hosting, SaaS; aggregate, anonymize and make available the data. Cloud computing, independent instances + economies of scale for the cohort.

AI assisted web-rings for social media/hypermedia. It would profit-share the popular content creators AND open source contributors.
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The claim that "all bits are the same" is absolutely insane.

I do not want to pay the same rate when I'm downloading system updates or uploading a backup vs when I stream real-time video chat or work via remote desktop. In one case latency is irrelevant while in the other it's everything. It's important for ISPs to differentiate these bits and prioritize them accordingly.

Net Neutrality also raises the barrier to entry for new ISPs, which solidifies existing monopolies. A new mobile ISP that lacks the infrastructure to support video streaming won't be allowed to enter the market as they're obligated to serve the entire internet.

Cable providers won't have any incentive to offer channels over the internet as their users will have to pay extra (for the internet bandwidth it uses) when there used to be no limit (on cable). ISPs will likely have to invest in unregulated side-channels for distributing their content, increasing technology fragmentation.
Very nice demo! Safari really seems to struggle with this (2014 MacBook Pro, High Sierra). Chrome and Firefox show much better performance.
> The big problem at the moment is that we have no idea what the actual process of compromise is.

Intel's behavior through this while story has struck me as rather peculiar.

The impression I get (which might be totally wrong - I sure hope that is the case!) is that Intel hardly admits to anything more than is already public knowledge.

I really hope I am just misinformed / judging on incomplete information. But based on what I do know, I find the implications of Intel's behavior rather disturbing. Even more disturbing than the specific security issues people have found with the ME.
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> They also needed to save fuel,

Fuel saving is not really a thing any more. It was when the new turbo-hybrids were introduced but with the new injection systems and higher efficiency engines as well as increased fuel limits, there hasn't been really a need for running economy for the sake of making it to the end on fuel.

Mercedes engines give more than 50% thermal efficiency now. That is phenomenal.

> Add refueling back, make it more exciting.

Not only is refueling terribly dangerous but I can't really agree that it would be more exciting to see teams play with strategy rather than try to overtake on track or by undercut/overcut on the pit lane (I liked seeing Ferrari play their good old fake pitstop overcut with Räikkönen vs. Perez a few races back, just like in the Schumacher-Todt days).

A lot of people are agreeing that the major inhibitor to the competition are the current front wings. They develop a lot of the cars' downforce and are the reason the cars are so fast at the moment, but completely lose their efficiency when following another car. Compare a last year F1 front wing [0] with one from about 15-20 years ago [1].

All those bits and pieces are there for a reason. They're the product of days and months of CFD work in supercomputer clusters (F1 regulations actually limit the amount of FLOPS in the aero clusters!). Additionally, when there's a minor collision in the first lap, a few of those bits might go missing but not enough to warrant a front wing change. That means that the driver is impaired for the rest of the race, and none if it is conveyed to the viewer (unless Martin Brundle spots it and tells it to the viewers).

A few years back there was the "overtaking working group" (OVG) that looked into this and their verdict was that the rear wings need to be higher and front wings simpler and make the underbody create more downforce (ground effect, without skirts though). Unfortunately that's the opposite of what they've been doing for the past few years and it shows.

[0] https://cdn-8.motorsport.com/static/img/mgl/3600000/3610000/...
[1] http://www.racecar-engineering.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/1...
Nope, they do not. Just execute "apt install gnome-shell" and you get GNOME proper. No interference what so ever.

After all, Ubuntu's GNOME is just GNOME with some extensions slapped on top.
Imo just knowing the actual track layout makes watching racing 10x more enjoyable. You understand what camera is after which.
But they stop on the zebra crossings! No regard for pedestrians ;-)
You do. Your companies not so much.
> should a lowly customer service rep […] be expected to address intellectual property rights?

Address? No. Redirect/escalate to the proper channels? Most definitely.
Since America and Britain stopped importing people

Net long-term international migration was estimated to be +246,000 in year ending (YE) March 2017. There is no sign it has shifted since, nor is there much sign it will change post Brexit. This is way above the long term average which IIRC is about +100,000.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populati...
The central thesis (thar as a toxic value) seems plausible, but his examples are all crazy, and his deduction about economic prosperity is questionable at best.

Look at the UK as an example of somewhere with extreme classism and heredity of employment for hundreds of years, the bit in between the "honourable knights" and the industrial revolution (which happened in the midst of astonishing inequality of wealth and opportunity). If you don't think the Royal carriages plastered with gaudy decoration are about external honour then what are they about exactly?

Also, the idea that the successful societies succeeded because they weren't sexist is proposterous, since the key points in their development happened long before the (start of the) recovery from that awful vice, which still isn't over as the news from Hollywood and Westminster in the last months neatly illustrates.

As others have said, this looks like a post-hoc justification of prejudice, which sadly ruins an interesting idea.
There are historical views stating that the American Civil War was in fact a secessionist war against an increasingly powerful federal government and that slavery was just used as one cause, obviously the most "despicable" from today's view, in an effort to legitimize an otherwise illegitimate war against secessionist states.

You can see this partly in quotes from Lincoln, in constitutional law of the states (some explicitly reserved the right to leave the union) and the fact that equality before the law was not achieved until hundred years later (assuming the view point that it was achieved at all).

This view results in two things:

1. The confederate flag is not a racist symbol per se (it is used as one though as is the Swastika)

2. The war was just another war about power and money, such as pretty much every other war. Just ask yourself what was the last humanitarian war you witnessed?

Sources:

- Google for "Abraham Lincoln Racist". It is a very much divided topic.

- 2nd paragraph here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origins_of_the_American_Civil_...

- There was a fantastic seminar on this topic (with downloadable Audio files) by Walter Block (a Libertarian) but I cant seem to find it.
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To me the fact you'd eat a pizza with bbq sauce is already disturbing. It has to be one of the biggest sources of sugar in existing savoury sauces.

What's wrong with tomato sauce ?
I also thought "sealed" was a pun towards the sea-based mammals (eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earless_seal)
Right, so Trump running a propaganda campaign accusing Obama of not being born in the United States isn't slander, while all the women who accused Trump are guilty of slander?
This is about herring, not lekkerbekjes / kibbeling :p
> our exchange rate is $1000 per banana

This implies that your boss is ready to trade both ways. I'd gladly accept the bundle of bananas.
You might want to try gnome flashback. It's GTK3 but you can make it look like Gnome 2, compiz cube included. I've been using it since Unity and Gnome 3.
Without more context it seems to be a relic from the past... Can someone give more context or point me to an implementation, online manual or tutorial? Searching in google does not return much (a wiki page and companies which use the same name).
>What has gone wrong with GCP? It was trying to be AWS. Too complex and feature-rich instead of simple and feature-complete.

Yeah no. GCP is a direct competitor to AWS, so of course Google needs (at least partly) to match Amazon's product lineup. The argument of this post boils down to "GCP should be like DO", i.e. less services and a slicker UI, but Google won't win over AWS customers with that.
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Wow, AI can do that already, taking all the parameters in consideration. I doubt it, i doubt it very much.
So that’s what it was! I saw this at my previous university one day and no amount of Google fu could point me towards what sort of remote access tool it was.
You are looking for QuickCheck.
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MotoGP > F1
I am an astonishingly selfish and irresponsible person, thank you very much.

I consider meat production to not be one of the large issues of global warming we have to solve, there are bigger priorities to address, last I checked, meat production contributes not that much to it compared to some other outputs.
well that and they don't have to have a 10 K report which can reveal more about the true state of a company that they wish to be public. in other words, you can go and stand before crowds all day and make glowing promises and reports but up against the SEC and investors you best damn have your ducks in a row.

there is a lot of additional reporting for publicly traded companies and that is a good thing.
There's a distinction though. Billionaires are people, identities, faces you can love or hate depending on what they do, but investments like these are done by faceless corporations. I don't mind corporations to have billions, spacex, tesla, apple, etc all have that and they can use that money for investing in Stuff.
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> If they could execute any of their bizarre little pranks then they would maybe deserve some of this and I’d maybe consider them as some kind of threat.

But, they can: the refunding and destruction of ACORN succeeded, as in many jurisdictions has the defunding of Planned Parenthood, both on the back of O'Keefe propaganda stunts (that we debunked in the mainstream media rapidly, sure, but that did little to blunt the political impact of the resulting propaganda.)

The propaganda isn't to persuade the broad public, it's to mobilize a sufficient segment of the activist base of the right. And, sure, only one in a dozen or so has any real effect, but it's that one in a dozen or so that keeps him getting funded through the other 11. Because the losses don't have much political cost.
What's probably crucial to understanding this favourable appraisal of Bezos is the "reply-all" gaffe that he mentions before the war story.

After speaking candidly about Bezos as a control freak and a tyrant in the original post (1), it's no surprise he followed up with a gushing and face-saving post about his genius and prescience.

(1) https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX
The engineering put into the game is unquestionable. But the amount of engineering in the competition itself is pretty small compared to real racing.

Top-tier sim racing teams actually do have race engineers and test drivers with telemetry and all to set up the cars. Racing sims have roughly the same amount of things to tweak as the real cars do.

But in F1, the often forgotten fact is that every car is different and engineered for the particular race track. The Ferrari that runs at Monza (low downforce) is significantly different from the Ferrari that runs at Monaco (high downforce) or Silverstone (medium-high downforce compromise). By contrast, every car is the same in simracing, apart from the setup (which can make a huge difference).
It must really sting; a company emits stocks back in the day for idk, $10 apiece and run with that, then for the rest of the company's existence they look at those same stocks and see them become worth $100, $1000, etc - the main people making money off of stocks are stock traders, not the company it was intended to fund.
Based on which values though? I don’t think they should go unstated, because if I don’t hold the same values then arguments holds no water with me.

A particularly annoying one is when people lie about their values or worse claim that their argument doesn’t stem from their values (are they embarrassed?), it’s purely “rational” and anyone who doesn’t agree is pc virtue-signalling cuck who is blind to reality.
"Don't change any defaults unless you can do extensive use-case-specific measurements" is probably the best way to keep a computer quick, I would say.
Nope, not in the majority's book - you need to pass a bar of topical cleverness in order to qualify as a pun.

Though, anecdotally, I've seen the type of wordplay you demonstrate referred to as a pun among English speakers in South East Asia. Where do you hail from?
F1 has a massive cultural problem about who wins. Every broadcast ends with cutting away from some incredible mid-pack dicing to watch 1 car on its own do a final clear lap and cross the line, then people celebrating.

Even when cutting to overtakes when cars pass. That move was set up 5 corners ago that's the interesting part.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem

Taleb does not get the credit for that!
That's a bit err, breathless optimism? SpaceX is a business that makes money off of sending shit to space, and it's optimizing for profit and/or lowering costs by reuse. The Mars philosophising is mainly for generating goodwill, they're not going to go there unless it makes them direct money or gives them PR credit.
True as far as it goes, but I've got much better tools available at the app code level.
You sound like an ideal Private Eye subscriber.

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In a world where developer convenience wins over performance, operations and data safety a significant number of those same developers argue over whether they should be referred to as computer scientists, engineers, architects, or painters.

Painters sounds about right.
Pleasantly surprised to see this work smoothly on my iPhone 6s
Developer convenience is not a substitute for sitting down and learning SQL - but a good number of people I've met over the years plugging MongoDB et el have at some point thrown their arms in the air at the prospect of doing that.

Here's the thing, in practice relational databases aren't hard, nor will most devs ever need to know what relational theory is in order to be productive with databases built on it. Performance optimization does get a bit harder but there are relatively few situations where there's any magic involved, knowing how to read an explain plan and when/where to add an index is what most of it boils down to.
> I would say that almost all VC money goes towards executing various predatory strategies.

It's not just VC money.

For example, YouTube has been financed by Google search, operating at a loss for many years, driving competitors out of business and raising barriers to entry.
Alltheflightdeals looked great, but I'm having trouble creating a subscription.

Are you getting hugged to death by HN right now?

The page from the confirmation email link takes very long to load and then results in an 'unexpected error'. When I try to create a new subscription, I'm getting a request for confirmation to 'update my settings', so the subscription seems to be saved.

When I look at the page which should show my subscribed destinations, I'm getting all kinds of flights from locations I haven't signed up for. Trying to edit my subscription from that page tells me that my 'email doesn't currently seem to be subscribed'.

A usability issue (not sure if it's related to the suspected current performance issues) is that after creating an email subscription, the overlay doesn't close and cannot be manually closed, so that I have to reload the page and don't see that you sent me a request for confirmation.
SQL is most sophisticated language ever built by mankind. It is centuries ahead of the second most productive language. Mix Window Functions, Common Table Expressions, Qube/RollUp, Materialized Views, ... and holy smoke...

You should try really hard to be unproductive with SQL and any relational system.
To me, it really is kind of funny that such a basic thing is rarity in NoSQL world.
You just proved the point that you're gullible, uninformed and wrong.
Norse blood feuds are the basis of famous sagas.

However, many Nordic and Germanic tribes had working alternatives (mainly banishment or exile and compensation) that greatly limited the violence.

Compensation could be fairly sophisticated. "man value" was the total monetary value of a man. Murderers family had to compensate 100% of the man value for the family of the victim. For the impairment the compensation sums were fractions of the man value.
The cloud shadows look like they are in a different direction to the other shadows? Does anyone else see this?
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I wasn't focusing on product lineup. GCP is clearly superior to DO and AWS even more. I was just offering an alternative to someone primarily using compute. It seems AWS LightSail understood this too: https://amazonlightsail.com/
Those rare situations stink. I agree. But from my own experience with blind auditions and from the actual data on how they allow, for example, the percentage of women in symphony orchestras to jump from around 5% to more than 50% in the case of the New York Phil in particular and above at least 35% across the whole industry of orchestral music, I'd say they were resoundingly effective in diversifying professional music. Yes, there are a couple of instances I know of where musicians didn't make it past the probation period. But these instances are extremely rare. The audition to get a job is so difficult, it tends to weed out the un-humble and those whose focus is not mainly the production of great music. They know how to select for top skill and the auditions test for it. Part of that skill is the ability to be flexible, to identify vibe and style of your team, to blend when necessary and to take risks when called upon and above all to be a great collaborator with others of extremely high skill. The process tends to filter out the on-the-job jerks. Not every time, but mostly. And that is what probation review is for. It is for every player and is decided by committee. I think for the rare mistake, such diversity advocacy is well worth the occasional error as opposed to the current system which yields very poor diversity numbers in tech as we are all aware.
I use Firefox containers for this. They’re not incognito, but they allow opening more articles in my main window.
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> Vandoorne competed in a serious rFactor F1 league and it's not like he was the fastest guy.

Having had a royal ass-kicking delivered to me by Stoffel Vandoorne and Rubens Barichello in iRacing, I have to say that they might not be the fastest simracers out there but boy are they fast! I'm not a top-tier simracer by any means but these guys were at a whole different level.

Verstappen also used to do tons of simracing at top levels in the past. I wonder why they never mention that in the broadcast, because I think it's a major influence to him. Before he ever sat in a single seater car, he had had thousands of hours in a virtual one. His epic save in the rain at Interlagos 2016 was a classic simracer move. Anyone else would have braced for impact but he sat there as calmly as one can because he'd been there before in a sim, just waiting for the front wheels to bite and then let go of the brake at the right moment. You can't practice that in a real car because you don't end up in that kind of situations often enough and walk away from them.
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