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Did DELL finally put some resources into their Linux software team? I bought a 2015 XPS 13 Developer edition and had a very bad experience with the software. The setup program crashed. And the drivers were bad: wifi slow, suspend/resume sometimes crashed, touchpad would register clicks while I typed, video playback randomly stopped working. I spent about 8 hours researching and finally got it usable. The remaining issues went away gradually over 6 months. After that experience, I believe that DELL doesn't care enough about making a great product to hire good software people, or is incapable of selecting good software people, or doesn't allocate enough money to hire enough software people.

Another problem is that all of the CPUs are 15W TDP. That means they have 1/3 the CPU power of a desktop. They are unsuitable for running heavy VM-based integration tests, video editing, and other things I want to do with my primary computer.
GC should be available in WASM in the future. And, not all applets needed JNI.

In other words, this is enabling a subset of well behaved applets, while excluding the naughty (or advanced) applets.
Agreed especially given that "transpile" lacks a well-defined meaning.

Just ask folks how this term differentiates from Compile and you'll get wildly varying answers and definitions.
I thought it was 1995?
Pascal’s wager doesn’t apply in this case as Ray Peat believes cutting back on sugar is really bad for you.

He doesn’t just think all current experts are wrong, he seems to be one of those rebel doctors who will specifically claim the opposite of any currently accepted fact regarding health and nutrition.
Wow! Can't wait to try this! Coolest thing I have seen in a minute!
> You could say people voted with their wallets.

You could say it, but that's not how democracy or legitimate government and lawmaking works. And in Uber's case, the wallets voting are a few investors who subsidized the customers.
Definitely true for me. If I have something looming, I am completely distracted and struggle to start anything knowing it will just be interrupted. Then you have those situations where you avoid starting anything 15 minutes out from a client arriving, then they run late and you've thrown away 30+ minutes.
It's a good thing no one will be running other people's untrusted code on their servers ..... Except for etherium contracts of course .... Anyone want to place bets on how long it takes before someone releases a spectre exploit in a contract? I'll take 4 days ....
> Are you the same person after you take a nap?

Yes.

> Doesn't your consciousness basically dissolve and then reconstitute itself when "you" wake?

Yes.

> What about from second to second, between moments of inattention?

Yes.

> Are we relying on the "stability" of your constituent atoms?

Yes.

> On some "arrangement" of them?

Yes.

> On a particular locus of sensation (the goo in your brain pan)?

Yes.

> What if we "clone" you by copying every other atom into a "left" clone, leaving the original in the right, and doing the reverse on the alternating atoms? Which resulting "clone" is you?

My father replaced the handle, and I replaced the blade, but it's still my grandfather's axe?

Neither. You ripped my brain in half, I am dead.
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Just want to piggy back off this and throw this out as a PSA: if you find you're constantly feeling tired even after making changes like improving sleep hygiene, exercising, etc, try getting a sleep study done.

I ended up being diagnosed with sleep apnea and once I started using a CPAP device and got used to sleeping with the mask on (took about 1-2 months), it was the difference between me being completely awake and having the energy to work on challenging things immediately after waking up vs feeling like a zombie for the first 3-4 hours every day.

I've never really had problems with "motivation" or discipline so I can't really speak on that, but getting this diagnosed and resolved has completely changed my attitude and capability for taking on new problems and not feeling "burnt out" all the time.
The stats are a bit misleading maybe for software devolopers because we spend a lot of time reading specs on features and reading about solutions to possible problems on Google before we can implement them.
At the point where we are calling things that compile to assembly "transpilers" I don't think there is any distinction left, much less a useful one. I mean the classic notion of a compiler is a program that turns things into assembly, which is then taken into machine code by an assembler.

I agree with you that we've lost though: no amount of protest is going to make people stop using the word "transpiler".
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> If the question, though, is about judging a company’s contribution to society based on how morally upstanding the founder is ...

Far more than Kalanick's behavior, it is the company's practices that are the problem. They willfully broke the law and they also mistreated many people from employees to drivers to rape victims.
Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11744221
> some people seem to think there's a useful distinction being made

What is that distinction? Excluding the javascript crowd, I doubt this phrase will see extensive use in the field until the term gets properly defined and is meaningfully distinct from the word Compile as used today.
Can I start a mini bank in these states and take their money then turn it into credit? It's not that straightforward but is it possible??
Quite possible.
Not necessarily.

It depends on the application, how it is written, the compiler and optimizer being used.
After 10 years of posting - 8 FB pages - 6 groups - FB SENT A MESSAGE ASKING ME TO SENT A COPY OF MY ID .... we refused. FB then == cancelled my account == ... no questions asked. Thousands of graphics posts gone etc ... one must agree with @gamechangr on his article .. their code of ethics is highly questionable , so are individuals behind the 'shut-u-down' switches, as is their motive behind establishing their web presence. Anyway - if you are a web marketer u are better off with google read the = facts = africasiaeuro.com/1c9y agreed
> I'm hopeful that this is at least becoming slowly more practical for some (more technical) people.

I would say that it is, and not just for the technical.

Putting Ubuntu on a laptop more than 6 months old is now trivial, and (given a non-exotic WiFi card) works fine. The problem is people being used certain to proprietary apps (Adobe Creative Suite/Cloud, Excel etc.).

The primary problem however, is that for the ordinary user, there’s little benefit to free software, assuming the machine is new enough to be performant, or the user is wealthy enough to replace it.

I’ll be interested to see if this changes when all the wonderful TPMs and for-your-own-good black-boxes start to get used for DRM.
In case anyone ever reads this, I should say that my description of my experiences were real. I added the last line because, reading it, the way I had written it sounded a bit overboard.
Punching a nazi is arguably self-defense for most people on the planet.
Actually scientific code has huge variation in speed.

The same high-level algorithm might be implemented inside an old, highly optimised FORTRAN program and then get transliterated into a use-once MATLAB script which runs 100 times slower because the vectorisation voodoo wasn't quite right.

In the latter case, people might not bother fixing it because the hour it would take is longer than the run-time. Or maybe the run-time cost is weeks, but the people doing it are scientists and understanding computers isn't their job.
By the way, what is the status of addressing the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities in OpenWRT/LEDE at affected platforms?
What do you do when no activities recharge your energy any more?
I had the same problem happen years ago with video using a song that's way out of copyright and already adjudicated in courts as being in the commons. I think most use automated systems to attempt to claim copyrights over your video. At the time, it was very hard to contest claims.
Yes, definitely, that's the kind of thing I'm thinking about, especially #2. Whereas a lot of exploits are happening with updateable software, it's rare that hardware gets hit so hard. This stuff hit on a deeper level.

I hope I don't offend anyone too badly here with this medical analogy, but it's like finding out you have a bad flu vs. finding out you have Parkinson's.

Or, it's like seeing someone in a different light for the first time... maybe you've known them for decades, but all of the sudden, you see them in this completely different way.
A lot of people listen to other stuff while exercising. I don't understand how one concentrates on the exercise if one is listening at the same time ?

You have to concentrate on your breathing, focus on your muscles, maintain your form. And on top of it, you are listening to an audiobook ? That is crazy.
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If Apple gets its hands on the phone they have an impressive system for recycling: http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-liam-iphone-recycling-r...

I could not find a reliable source for what portion of each phone is recycled, but Apple is certainly not slacking on the recycling front.
Yes. And it is interesting that general neural networks can't really solve that one. The closest thing to a solution we have for it is the human animal -- and it is still a pretty specific beast.
I made essentially this argument in the thread for the google announcement about beating stockfish and was down voted mercilessly.

I think neural nets and deep learning systems are misunderstood so profoundly because humans are bad at many kinds of reasoning and the explanation of the neural net being "smart" is so psychologically appealing.
Tl/dr: the campaign against sugar is not actually grounded on solid science - it's sort of a disinformation campaign to distract people from the other elephants in the room: rancid deodorized dietary oils, xeno-estrogens and other endocrine disrupters, etc...

People with a healthy metabolism can easily burn sugar for energy. Having a high metabolism increases the body's need for other nutrients, which are not present in white sugar. Sugar-rich foods, used in the context of a nutrient-dense diet, can be therapeutic.
Perhaps whoever thought about it assumed it was obvious enough that others would have realized it as well. It may simply have never occurred to them that it was worth sharing.
The problem is that traditional heavy equipment takes too long to get into position due to its bulk and weight. Basically, someone needs to make a backhoe that is better than 4-20 people with Pulaskis. In addition, it would need to take up less room, weight less, and cost less than the number of people it replaces.

There are a bunch of other things that can help control fires, but most of them are not very flashy and some run into problems of NIMBYs torpedoing the control measure.

Some measures that can help:

1. Mandate under eave water sprayers in higher risk areas (a fair amount of houses destroyed are caused by embers from main fire). This is probably the easiest to disrupt.
2. Do more controlled burns (especially in areas that have not burned in decades. Huge NIMBY objection to this as they claim it will damage property values or harm children)
3. Require more fire-resistant vegetation or ground cover around residential areas (bare ground is bad as well as lots of trees and large bushes)
4. Require more fire resistant building materials and techniques for roofs, decks, outdoor furniture, etc.
> You may be confusing taxi drivers with taxi companies owning and selling medallions

No, I'm not. In cities I know, they are politically weak. Also, when I talk to drivers, they all would rather drive taxis where they make more money, but have little choice when Uber is taking all the business. They almost universally say Uber pays less, treats them poorly (e.g., they have to supply their own car), and leaves them powerless (Uber can change rates and increase the supply of drivers any time it wants).

> for hundreds of thousands of dollars

Is this big number supposed to be impressive? Let's not forget Uber's 40 billion dollars and lobbyists who used to advise Presidents, if we want to talk about political power. It's laughable to compare taxi companies with Uber.
Till now I have found this to be the best summary for someone who is technical, but does not understand all gory details of CPU working.
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Remember that naming is one of the hardest things in software engineering.
There are many places (outside US) where you can get 200MBit for $10 or so.
"A few pleasures" is subjective, just like the value loss of untimely death. Also you'd be dead either way.
In your example, her job is an Accountant. She can aspire to be a writer but not on company time.
I first read it on Verge.
Literally yesterday's news. (-:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16068324
Do you contribute to the Internet Archive? Video service is ridiculously expensive, and using them to hotlink HTML5 video onto your Web site seems...kinda antithetical to the spirit of what you're saying.
> How does cycling AWS instances quickly provide additional security beyond obscurity?

The same way issuing a new session token for each login improves security. If the changes are unpredictable, whatever process an attacker uses to guess the correct target must be restarted every time the target changes.
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Ubnt was a bit rough earlier on but with their recent firmware and software updates it's a real breeze. Still a bit annoying setting up their secure gateway behind a frontier router with a remote controller, but everything else is spot on. Haven't had a wifi/network problem since switching to them.
0.3 kW/h * 0.20 $/kW * 24 h * 360 days = $518.4 per year of electricity

Your mileage may vary with the costs of electricity in your region and whether you really run 24/7.

In my experience, people always operate around break even. They only make good money if they held their coins and the price increased over time.
What an oddly specific and tangential metaphor that was...
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It uses Xvfb, ffmpeg, hiptext (with fixes from the author), and a custom interfacer written in go, which employs xzoom in C and termbox-go (with fixes from the author).

The interfacer alone looks fun, seems like I can control a remote X session via ssh.
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You must be doing something wrong if your handoff wasn't working. My old apartment had them building wide and there was never a problem.
> probably doing what everybody is doing for mitigation

Is there any discussion? I thought OpenBSD development mostly took place on public mailing lists ?
Hmm I wonder how many of these I can run at the same ti
In the Spectre paper they note that while Chrome degrades the resolution of `performance.now()`, they were able to get a timer with sufficient resolution by using a Web Worker (thread) which repeatedly decrements a value in shared memory. As far as I know the EVM intentionally doesn't provide any concurrency because execution must be deterministic, and it seems doubtful that any kind of message-passing from outside the contract would be fast enough to provide the resolution needed.

However, the block-lattice cryptos like RaiBlocks that find a way to build in concurrency and shared memory might be different.
> dQw4

Nope, not falling for that one.
Having diabetes is not just about an untimely death. I'm going to die anyway, but hopefully I can enjoy a life that doesn't involve insulin shots, amputated limbs, blindness, etc. I've seen what diabetes does to a person first hand.
I would also love to replace my 15" laptop that has 32 GB of RAM (a Eurocom M5 Pro).

Finding a suitable vendor with nice specifications has been hard work...
“TeaVM is a primarily web development tool. It’s not for getting your large existing codebase in Java or Kotlin and producing JavaScript.”

“TeaVM is for you, if:

- You are a Java developer and you are going to write web front-end from scratch.

- You already have Java-based backend and want to integrate front-end code tightly into your existing development infrastructure.

- You have some Java back-end code you want to reuse in front-end.

-You are ready to rewrite your code to work with TeaVM.“

http://teavm.org/docs/intro/overview.html
You can even set them up with your phones now days, but I think it only works with just one AP.
> The difference between productive people and you is not time management.

> Some shift their perspective to make it less taxing (not everyone hates weeding).

It sounds like what you're actually saying is that some people are more productive because they get energy from what other people would consider "work"
>IA hosting is gratis

Not a scaleable solution though. If everyone were to do the same they'd quickly be consumed by bandwidth costs.
Pretty expansive. Might be fun to see a gamified version where you could compare your own personal skill competency with your friends & coworkers.
> Industry experts have been expressing concerns for this for ten years.

AFAICT, de Raadt was concerned about Intel in general, but not the recent exploits in particular. We can find endless criticisms of every major company from the last 10 years (including on HN!); picking this one mailing list posting is bit arbitrary in the context of these exploits, even if de Raadt makes some good general points.
Even wireless... I have over 20 clients going and they handle it just fine, even transferring massive files. I can easily max out wireless AC. Maybe you're experience is with their older APs?
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And by making it a decision by some body you make sure that it will be corrupted. By just limiting the money and leaving it to the private sector you make sure it's an actual economic decision.

So do you want the extreme rare condition that some important congresscritter's daughter has consume 80% of the medical budget ? This is the way to go.
If the app vendor has gone out of business and there is substantial data in the 32-bit app, there may be no upgrade alternative.
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In other words, for these patients, complaining loudly about it just went from "completely pointless" to "the most valuable activity I could ever do".

Now if we can only remember that detail when it inevitably makes the newspapers.
Threats to hurt someone are always out of line. Did you read that the recent source of the swatting attack that killed the poor innocent person walking out of his house also is apparently the guy who called in the bomb threat before the vote for network neutrality at the fcc [1].

There are sadly people out there who could hurt any public official. He and everyone should be safe, but I also think he doesn't want to face a very very angry public about his joyous destruction of n.n.

[1] https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/12/kansas-man-killed-in-swa...
> I think WASM has the ability for us to finally cross the language boundaries without marrying ourselves to C/C++ ABI

That is how many maninframes work, and the original idea behind the CLR.
What's most fun about anti-pomo hit pieces like this one is how decidedly postmodern their polemics are. More frustratingly, there is no unitary postmodernism, because it was a broad confederated movement, so undoubtedly there are postmodern thinkers who the author would sympathize with and others who she would hate.

The author's motivations are revealed in the conclusion:

>Our current crisis is not one of Left versus Right but of consistency, reason, humility and universal liberalism versus inconsistency, irrationalism, zealous certainty and tribal authoritarianism. The future of freedom, equality and justice looks equally bleak whether the postmodern Left or the post-truth Right wins this current war. Those of us who value liberal democracy and the fruits of the Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution and modernity itself must provide a better option.

She's upset that classical liberalism has been abandoned on the right and modernist socialism has been abandoned on the left, and wants to carve out a return to reason for classical liberals in the center. There are two issues with this.

The problem with the idea of the right or liberal "left" returning to classical liberal thought is that the classical liberal thought of the 19th century was unable to answer questions that came up as capitalism and liberal society developed. Different answers led to different traditions: modern liberalism, conservatism, and right-wing libertarianism. You can't just undo 250 years of development and pretend that the world is how it was when Smith and Locke were writing.

The problem with her idea that the left should return to modernist traditions (e.g. the social democratic tradition, communism, anarchism, etc.) is that the left already has. The fastest growing political movement in the United States (and in most European countries, most notably the UK) is socialism. The group spearheading this movement in the US is the DSA, whose largest caucus is the Refoundation Caucus, a Marxist and Leninist (but _not_ Marxist-Leninist) group. Postmodernism has been essentially been absent from the left since the 1990s, with the only exception being the academic "left."

Regardless, despite its many flaws, we are all better off for postmodernism happening. The "inconsistency, irrationalism, zealous certainty and tribal authoritarianism" that the author rails against is exactly what Foucault, Derrida, et al. were writing against. They revealed grand errors in mainstream intellectual thought, and that shouldn't be diminished by the fact that their analyses weren't otherwise very useful.
I'm sure people will have a bunch of feel-good suggestions here.

Want a good dose of reality from my perspective?

I'd say suck it up, then move on somewhere else and hope that it will be better.

I don't mean be silent either. But don't try too hard to fix things or be the voice of reason and things like that.

Very very few cases like that see tangible change from the inside.

There are often much deeper rooted systematic problems present. And in many cases there's no interest in willingness to "fix" any of those problems in the first place.

They may express interest in the outcome of the fixes (better stability, etc). But ... well you will find somehow there's never enough time to actually invest in achieving those outcomes.

Without knowing more about your case I can't be more specific.

But just remind yourself, things don't just snap into existence out of thin air.

If things have been like that where you are for a while, chances are it's going to stay that way for a while longer too.

The current state of an environment is somewhat representative of what has been encouraged, rewarded, discouraged and punished there.

You may be tempted to be the hero that makes things right. You are probably one just like the many that came before you and are long gone.
Variations on Tomasulo's brilliant algorithm are part and parcel of every out-of-order execution engine. Definitely part of every computer architect's toolkit. To see how far the underlying ideas can be pushed, see the architectural work of Yale Patt and his students, Wen-mei Hwu, and Michael Shebanow.