skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think you're understanding.

Let me be explicit. There are changes in WASM specifically made that render spectre and meldown mitigations useless. (ie-Browser makers put in spectre and meltdown mitigations, and changes in WASM allow WASM content to get around those mitigations.) Developers cheer the changes, because they make WASM more useful, and to be fair, browser mitigations of spectre and meltdown type bugs make WASM far less performant. But changes which render those mitigations useless are dangerous no matter what your opinion is on how useful WASM should be.

Edit: Should probably mention that the upcoming changes include threading and shared memory. Implemented in a way that enables CPU side channel attacks. (Probably because there is no other way to get threading and shared memory without everything slowing to a crawl, but still.)
- https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-rules

See Abusive Behavior; You may not engage in the targeted harassment of someone, or incite other people to do so. We consider abusive behavior an attempt to harass, intimidate, or silence someone else’s voice.

See Violence and physical harm; You may not make specific threats of violence or wish for the serious physical harm, death, or disease of an individual or group of people.

See Threats to expose / hack; You may not threaten to expose someone’s private information or intimate media. You also may not threaten to hack or break into someone’s digital information.
I'm seeing a lot of "I deleted and I don't even miss it" comments. I haven't deleted my account just yet, but I only check the news feed once a week.

Taking this anecdotal evidence into account, I wonder if it's just Facebook's core audience growing out of social media. Sure, Zuckerberg has a bazillion users, but his site started by selectively inviting college students in the early 00's. Those early adopters are now all in their 30s and have better things to do than gossip and post vanity shots all day. Maybe the older audience who joined the site later are losing interest because that core was less active.

And then there's the younger generation who actively avoid Facebook and stay connected through a massive spread of other apps/games/sites that are not outright social media outlets. Without a major pivot, this could be big trouble for FB.
Not for me. You obviously have more data, but like 23andme,I found very little of it to be actionable or useful. YMMV
In theory they could make a patent for some medications based on your gnome.

- So you paid to give them your data
- They patent something that in essence belongs to you
- You need that cure you need to pay them again.
According to the paper, one nautical mile per day was state of the art in 2006. They are shooting for one mile/month now

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S207510871401009X
Yes, cost of living in Montreal is nowhere near what it is in Vancouver or Toronto
I'm no Trump fan but shadow-banning is one of the worst practices in online discussion forums IMHO.

That said, Trump has gotten a free pass countless times on violating Twitter's TOS so if anyone actually deserves a shadowban...
> WebAssembly is a technology to achieve the formerly stated goal easier and more convenient.

WebAssembly is a technology to achieve better performance on the web, and that as a side-effect happens to achieve withholding the source easier.

Actually, it's pretty much like minifiers. And I guarantee you: the main reason most people are using minifiers is to improve performance, not to hide the source. That just happens to be a side effect.
There are plenty of Earth species that reproduce asexually through parthenogenisis, fission, budding, etc.
Library of psychological principles and examples for use in your product
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Sounds like an easy way out of taking a stand from the spineless, "@jack" and his ilk.
Mind-Controlled Third Arm Gives New Meaning to Multitasking
> Firstly, clang and llvm are written in c++ so it's much easier for me to work with.

Why is the implementation language important to you as a user?
Ive got an RX-580 in my gaming desktop. Couldn't be happier.

And the integrated Vega graphics in their Ryzen mobile processors are nothing to sneeze at. Getting performance comparable to some of the low-end nVidia cards.
To be fair, there were reasons those things fell out of favor; there was a real tendency for crazy, uneditable code that was way larger than it needed to be. Perhaps some of these things would be less of an issue now (honestly, a bunch of wasteful code is less of an issue now than when most of us were on 56k modems), but they weren't made-up.
>"Although the results are promising, this trial was fairly small, and as Vox points out, it’s frowned upon in the research community to change your end results midway through a trial. At the moment, the FDA requires new drugs targeting Alzheimer’s to go through two phase III trials, showing a reduction of both a biological marker for the disease and cognitive decline. In March of this year, the organization published a draft report that said in the future they would accept only a reduction of biomarkers, without a reduction in cognitive decline, a decision has been supported by the research community. This is because in early cases of Alzheimer’s, patients may have the biological indicators of the disease without actually showing symptoms."

I wouldn't consider this promising at all. It looks like it was "too hard" so standards are being lowered.
Except JS alone wasn't good enough for that; WASM, especially as a compilation target, seems to make the task of embedding a browser within a webpage easier.
Find people that do know what they're doing and partner with/ pay them a lot.
I think that would be simply a wrong title and not clickbait.
Can someone ELI5(+) what an isomorphic virtual dom is?
Ha, maybe it's time for a WASM-revival of Gnash! [1]

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/
I am vehemently against that notion.

If your only point of contact is people who speak spanish, you will never learn english. If your only point of contact is people that think that the world is flat, then most likely you will grow up believing the same. If everyone around you is insane, then it is exceedingly like you will be too.

Again, my belief is that you are a product of 1. Your environment and 2. Your genetic programming. And humans are social creatures, if the people that surround you are all in a certain way, you will probably tend that way too.
You won't be able to block it on a network level either when it's running on a locked-down platform like iOS and using an eventual iteration of TLS that prevents man-in-the-middle inspection. This feels like yet one more step in the direction of "you don't own your computer anymore".
Facebook is providing investors with outdated fake account numbers
Wow. I love analysis like this. Total biomass of viruses = 0.2 gigatons. Total humanity of all 7 billion souls only 0.06 gigatons. Did I understand correctly?
Microsoft Surface Laptop and Surface Pro 4 Getting New Firmware Updates
That seems correct AFAIR.
That is only up to Adobe or the developers of that other OSS flash runtime/reimplementation.
It's just manufactured outrage. We need to collectively ignore this nonsense. It's intended to distract.
I'd never thought of WordPress plugins as self-hosted apps until I built my WordPress plugin, Kanban for WordPress [1]. It can be thought of as a self-hosted Trello. I've since seen a self-hosted Buffer, Pocket, Evernote, Delicious/Pinboard, all on WordPress.

[1] https://KanbanWP.com
The product was originally called Adobe Edge, and it was rolled into Adobe Animate.
> The FB marketing execs must sit there thinking, how the fuck do we sell Facebook when everybody knows about Facebook, and most people know it's garbage?

It's no different than Coca Cola or McDonalds. Everybody knows about them and most know it's garbage. The answer is to sell a feeling, a mental association, a lifestyle... at a subconscious level. That's the real power of advertisement. For well-established brands, it's also branding reinforcement: never let your mind forget about the brand, so that at the right time, you're predisposed to reflexively reach for it. Feeling hungry? Mc Donalds! Feeling thirsty? Coke! Feeling that dopamine need for social validation? Facebook!
Sandstorm.io, and the apps I use the most are Etherpad, EtherCalc, and Wekan, which can all be hosted separately as well. Oh, and TinyTinyRSS, can't forget my news reader app.
I was with you until the end of your comment:
> llvm + clang is actually open source (more open) via a MIT license instead of gpl

How is a license that allows someone or some corporation to take some code, add to it, and make those additions proprietary "more open" than a license that specifically disallows that type of scenario? The GPL ensures that derived code stays open while MIT does not. In my eyes, that's "actually open source". I can see the argument that licenses like MIT allow consumers of some piece of code more freedom to do as they please, but that hardly makes it more open.
An isomorphic virtual DOM is much like an inverted-index homomorphic shadow DOM, but instead of using a shadowed mapping they virtualize the original elements themselves.
"it" is something being referenced - some details in the territory being marked out by the map. The map, and this act, provide no evidence that something exists. The only real basis is if you have evidence there's some details, of the nature claimed by your map, that can have some sort of transitive causal influence upon us.
I think we will start to see a lot of all-in-one frameworks that use wasm for constraint based layouts so people don't have to learn CSS. I hope I'm wrong but I can definitely imagine something like this coming from the enterprise java/.net types.
Depends what the rate of return is.
Java Applets were before their time. It took JS/HTML the good part of a decade to catch up functionality and performance-wise
> The cat is for sure out of the bag. I just hope what was still can survive.

I hope so too, but as a member of predatory and territorial species, the cat will most likely keep on killing everything else around it.
Wow ! This must be one of the greatest rocket photo I've ever seen, it looks surreal, too clean to be true, the perfect shape of these 9 fire jets !

Thanks for sharing it. I'd love to get a high res, standalone (without the Bloomberg cover) version.
Perhaps an alternative that is more reflective of the actual content would be: Why WebAssembly is not the return of Java Applets and Flash.
I don't think the barrier to entry or ease of development is really the issue when we're talking about ad networks.
The future demand for English in Europe: 2025 and beyond
The LinuxTV dvb-apps package has a utility called dvbdate that can do this.

https://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/LinuxTV_dvb-apps
> Which Life Form REALLY Dominates Earth?

The one which can choose at a moment's notice whether or not all the others live or die. ;- )
An interesting aspect of collecting all these space stories in one place is that it allows you quickly confirm how many conform to the same science-journalism template: an extended human-interest story that doesn't start dribbling bits of science until many paragraphs in. Even when the focus of the article is a human's role, the writer follows the formula of telling a compelling anecdote rather than actually delivering important facts.

"In early February, Gwynne Shotwell arrived in Saudi Arabia for a bit of last-minute cleanup...."

"Kathleen Howell never aspired to walk on the moon. When she watched the first lunar landing as a teenager in 1969, she was more intrigued by the looping route that brought the Apollo 11 astronauts from Earth to the Sea of Tranquility and back..."

"On July 18, outside the West Texas town of Van Horn, hundreds of Blue Origin employees and their families and friends gathered to watch the New Shepard rocket blast off toward the edge of space...."

"The chicken sandwich has to get to space. This is what everyone at World View Enterprises Inc. was thinking as they set to work in the predawn hours of June 29, 2017, at the Page Municipal Airport in Arizona....

"Shou-Ching Jaminet, a molecular biologist and former researcher at Harvard Medical School, spent almost a year preparing an experiment for her small biotech startup, Angiex, to study the effects of weightlessness on a potential cancer drug. By June she was nervous with anticipation,..."

Does no one else get sick of this? I would love more inverted-pyramid coverage of science.
No, they're telling people how to evade tax.
I agree that "fixation" hasn't been proved.

To add to the list of single-gender planets: "The Crime and the Glory of Commander Suzdal", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crime_and_the_Glory_of_Com... :

> The original settlers nearly became extinct, succumbing to a plague that (in Smith's words) rendered "femininity carcinogenic." They were only able to save their women by chemically (and later genetically) making them male. However, the resulting society is deeply unbalanced by the lack of females and ordinary family structure. The Arachosians, not truly male or female and calling themselves "klopts", realize on an instinctive level what they are missing and as a result, hate normal human beings with unbridled fervor and regard them as abominations to be destroyed (even though they have not seen one in many generations).

However, that story was not set on the planet.

There's also a Lensman book by E.E. Smith with a female-dominate society, as well as the Raumpatrouille episode "Battle for the Sun". Both had scenes on that planet, but were not primarily set there.
Well, modern JS is MORE performant that classical scripting languages in benchmark cases, but the fact is that your browser freezes on half of js CRUDs that do data processing, while an analogous Perl application works at near light speed in comparison.

In half cases like that, stuff like sorting, list comparison, deduplication are done in a way that will score low mark even by standards of first year university program.

This is telling of web development industry's approach to doing business.

The most horrid examples of "LAMP sweatshops" of 10 years ago pale in comparison to what the industry has devolved into these days.

My own experience being an involuntary webdev for 3 years left me with following impressions:

1. Webdev is the largest commercial development niche in the whole tech industry. Everything else pales in comparison. It is also about making money quickly. A webapp or even a promo page SPA for a major consumer brand these days can cost up to $100k easily. $100k does not seem a lot to most people here, but such money can be well offered for a 1 month project for a team of of 6-8 professionals.

2. The industry is dominated by shops with 20 to 30 people headcount. Web dev studios generally don't scale much above that because of talent flight. Loss of a single senior dev who supervises hordes of lowest tier mule coders is often the end of a business for most of companies.

3. People from "big dotcom" world are near oblivious to ways of small web dev shops. For people who began their careers at 60k a year internships, getting into shoes of a person who does coding for 30k a year is impossible.

4. Talent flight and turnover is real.

5. This is all about really expensive quick and dirty code.

6. "The big dotcom" type of companies tried time and time again to tap into the market to extract rents, and with exception of Macrovision nobody ever succeeded. This is the reason Adobe is lobbying for unusable, unwieldy APIs in hopes of selling tooling for it.
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Ah sorry I thought you were replying to "no-one would complain about Flash or Java Applets".

I don't disagree that WASM is faster than JS; in fact I make that point myself in several comments. My point is that WASM's speed does not enable it to be abused like Flash in a way that JavaScript cannot be, because JavaScript is already as fast as (in fact faster than) Flash thanks to modern JITs like V8. The reasons that WASM is not the "new Flash" must therefore be the same reasons that V8 + Canvas are not.
It's okay, I was wrong about what the limits are too. They've been increased a lot
Gradual static typing for Ruby
wasm's true goal is to bring more performance and technology-independence to the web, which leads to more decentralization, user power, etc. For instance, more things can "run everywhere" because the performance is acceptable in a browser and so writing native applications for individual platforms isn't necessary. Moving things to the web becomes much easier because it is easy to retarget existing code in native languages without having to rewrite it all. And, importantly for freedom, those mean more things can be freely accessible webapps rather than having to go through the mobile vendors' stores and vetting.

All of these benefits come without a significant cost to user freedom because the cost has already been paid, and will always be paid no matter the underlying technology: companies will always ship obfuscated code if they feel that's important. (Also, I suspect most minification is driven by bandwidth and page speed concerns.)

Lastly, I don't think wasm is actually noticeably more convenient: shipping wasm requires a compilation step, just like minifying JS.
Are any of those as large and potentially as broad as wasm?
The only example that comes to mind is a single episode of Star Trek Next Generation. I don't feel like it can in any way be considered a fixation. It definitely warrants the occasional thought experiment though.
To me, flash was like the past, or a warped vision of the distant future. The interfaces people created had visual appeal, but that’s all they had. It lacked all of the usability that I was used to finding on webpages, and therefore made for a very frustrating experience. No bookmarking, no back and forward, no right clicking to open a new tab, frequent superfluous sound, major security holes, long loading times. I would hardly call any of this elegant. As a user, I was thrilled when people stopped using flash.

Flash was like using poor quality native apps, which was a step backwards from a browser.
VideoLAN: Huawei phones are now blacklisted and cannot get VLC on the Play Store
Aha, apologies, my misunderstanding. Looks like I got a bit emaxcited 8)

So either you add them manually or you query Crossref, arXiv, DBLP or HAL (French open archive) within emacs and then can copy their bibtex entry from there. No pdf or web reference importer as far as I'm aware. Yet!
The Imperial Radch Series starting with Ancillary Justice does this a bit. The main human civilization in the setting, the Radch, don't care about gender or have a word for it. Given the widespread availability of cloning and other methods of reproduction they just don't view it as important anymore.
> Why the iPhone can’t compete in India

Simple:

iPhone X 256GB cost in usa $1150

The median household income in the United States is $56,516, according to 2015 data from the U.S. Census. Thus saving $200/month average family can buy iPhone X in 6months (which is still a lot of money for many and honestly lower budget consumers are not exactly Apple's target audience).

iPhone X 256GB cost in india $1600

The median household income in India is <$3000 (estimated).

In india a family has to work for 10 months saving 100% of income to buy iPhone X....

Dont need Harvard degree to figure out why it doesnt sell there...
You what?

Any sensitive Spectrum Analyser or SDR can see the bump in the spectrum caused by the GPS Signals. And quite a few amateurs have built homebrew GPS receivers.

Or they can buy a little GPS module and use the data stream for a huge range of projects.

Most modern digital Ham communication methods require a 10MHz feed from a GPS module to maintain sufficient time and frequency accuracy.
meh, rappers do this all the time.
There would be no need for WASM in that case. JS and WebGL works just fine for 99% of cases.
> Would I complain if I could run a full version of Word or Excel in the browser? The browser would become a universal interface in another way and decrease our reliance on particular operating systems.

I for one would, because the browser is an absolutely shitty interface. You're still forced into "there are tabs, which contain sandboxed documents" model of use. Interoperability is nonexistant, integration with machine capabilities is superficial and completely opaque to the user, the data model is hidden (where is my localStorage equivalent of the file browser again?), everything assumes you're constantly connected - it's a corporate wet dream, but for individuals, it's a nightmare.
Disagree. If you've only got IPv4 experience and have a number of possibly legacy devices on your network, then there is a significant amount of learning and changes required to make it work with IPv6 (securely).

It's entirely reasonable to say "It works fine without [=zero business value], no need to invest that amount of work.". This makes IPv6 a negative value proposition for many orgs.
> clang is actually open source (more open) via a MIT license instead of gpl

Here's the obligatory retort that open source != free software: GPL (et al) is about guaranteeing end users' freedom to tinker, as opposed to MIT (et al), which are about allowing developers to use someone else's work in their product without restrictions. GPL enforces a share-and-share-alike ethos, while MIT asserts do-what-thou-wilt. They're not the same end goals.
Vue is already ridiculously simple; how much easier can it get? You don't even need to mess around with a complicated build pipeline, just reference the vue lib in a script tag and get going.
These are all old books. The modern trend seems to be gender is an afterthought. The main character in the Ancillary series has difficulty distinguishing men from women.
When did Trump violate the ToS?
I agree WASM doesn't bring in anything fundamental to this picture that isn't already there with JS. But that is no comfort.

In the ancient web world, the site author wrote HTML to describe the data she wanted presented and the browser took care of making it accessible. But authors (especially companies) wanted detailed control of how their sites looked, so they turned to flash etc.

JS has long been re-playing this trend in slow motion -- moving away from web pages being interactive documents presented by the GUI app called browser and towards them being stand-alone GUIs like in flash.
predictive analytics..?
Mods: Can you change the submission to point to this instead?
The horses roam all over the place - I can nearly guarantee you that you won't miss them. They are everywhere!
As to where to go and what to see - choose one of the trails that hits the beach. Lots to see!
Why English will still be important to Europe in a post-Brexit world
GCC is written in C++ nowadays.
Fundamentally, the large-scale collection of (often user generated) data to train models puts a more and more power into the hands of those doing the collection.

Since giving away this data is mostly neither possible or desirable legally, nor in the interest of the dataset owner, there is a tradeoff between wanting to learn from data, and preserving privacy of the people generating/described by the data.

That is not to say that science is not trying, like for example this paper:

https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2813687
It was nice, though, to learn about the countries that have had success.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17617221
you can but, wasm should be an order of magnitude faster then javascript, this makes it possible to run all kinds of "heavy" apps in the browser. some kind of client that outputs to webgl in this case shoud be doable, in pure js it would be to slow /expensive.