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> you can expect to get better performance from the JIT than AOT

And you are likely to be disappointed. I think these claims have been made for the last 20 years, and Graal might be the first to deliver something general - all previous successes were very limited to small niches.

I like JITs and what they offer, but very consistently for me and almost everyone I know, in practice AOT works better (faster, consistent, no "heuristic changed in JIT version and now it's slow" surprises).
Pretty cool, but straight up turns your laptop into a radiator.
A Front-End tool library developed based on functional programming ideas
The most powerful boycott would be not to submit papers to Elsevier journals. But given current academic hiring practices this is hardly going to happen, at least not in my field.
Ok then, same as with the refueling example: Contract that out to the personnel at the truck stop.
Are you going to let your employees get away with investing all of 4 hours into things you did not give them permission for? You haven't shown them who the alpha is until they ask you for permission to go to the bathroom.
IPSec implementations are so complex, I have no faith they are rigorously debugged. I'm quite partial to Wireguard https://www.wireguard.com.

As to the guide overall, it suffers from the typical delusions of enterprise IT, which delivers a castrated platform with marginal security improvements. Users will still suffer XSS from crappy Oracle corporate applications, phishing, buffer overflows etc. But at least they won't be able to use grep! Nasty bash programs!
Tire noise will be the major issue there, I did take a course on environmental protection (fire and noise, Brand- und Lärmschutz) and they did mention the engine is only 50% of the total noise for a large truck. Mostly because it has lots of tires.

Whisper asphalt is also still somewhat rare and doesn't solve the problem entirely.
Yes, it seems Graal might finally deliver on the "JIT is better because it is better informed" promise after 20 years. I'm holding my fingers crossed, but I think we need a little more experience with it before victory can be declared.
Because only very few libc's support it. There should also be a locale independent _sprintf_c somewhen.
Arguably impossible for AI, since sufficiently complex language can be Turing complete, and thus general understanding requires solving the halting problem.
i find receiving advice to be difficult because the other person essentially places himself above you. That is why i try to be careful with dishing out too much advice. But sometimes its necessary. and sometimes i just cannot help it.

if i give advice, i try to do it in a non-personal way. like 'i just found a cool trick to do y' rather than 'you are doing it like x, but doing y would be better'.
There's this classic paper from Google that runs an optimisation competition on the same program written in C++, Java, Scala and Go:

https://days2011.scala-lang.org/sites/days2011/files/ws3-1-H...
You don't always have the choice of just up and go. I developed a system for an american startup that gathered everything it could get its hands on through their Gmail accounts. Did I think that's unethical? Yes, but just quitting wasn't an option and it was perfectly legal. I switched to a new company when I could afford it and am now much happier. But suggesting to just quit the moment your company behaves unethical is a little optimistic.
> You don't even need a separate server for it: just use a separate network card in an existing machine.

Because you want internal network to keep working when you do server maintenance.
While I partially agree that it is a pipe dream, I don’t see why a colony idea is far fetched. I feel like the technological challenges are no more insurmountable than a moon landing once was. Someone with a better understanding can probably correct me.
That map thing is pretty cool, I found two people running around chatting on the server, and I was able to watch their conversation in real-time https://cdn.servnice.com/screenie/6HM6m94cN5r9rev.jpg
As someone who never played Minecraft, I am curious how many men hours it took to build all of this. It's beautiful.
That's one more of those "irrational exuberance" regarding the future of autonomous driving. It would never even come close to being legal if it's only better than the average driver. It will need to be better than the 95th percentile of human drivers at the very least. 48% of the human population are not going to accept a more dangerous, potentially deadlier, car ride because it's "safer on average".
Thailand’s Major Cineplex Theater to Accept Cryptocurrency Payments
As Thai SEC has integrated cryptocurrency into the businesses, Major Cineplex has also accepted cryptocurrency payments for their services. Read in detail.

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That's very good news, yet I imagine the publisher can claim rights over composition, layout, typesetting and the pdfs themselves. This is quite a problem as who's going to do all that again, particularly when it comes to dead authors (ocr won't cut it). Nowadays you have your own digital version and you could simply distribute that (if we ignore keeping track of published page numbers), but what you get for papers up to more or less the 90s is scanned documents, it's unlikely that you can find other versions around. The transition to a sane model won't be frictionless nor fast, it might be cheaper to make a bid for the publishing companies outright (fees of subscriptions are simply absurd, their whole business model is a legal racket).
Not sure what you mean by imprecise, but Go’s GC does trade throughput for latency. The overhead still isn’t huge if only because there is so much less garbage than in other GC languages. I’m also surprised by your cache misses claim; Go has value types which are used extensively in idiomatic code so generally the cache properties seem quite good—maybe my experience is abnormal?
What "appropriate authorities"? Shouting into the void at some google user forum?
I think his point is that if you write normal single threaded code then your other cores are going to be idle. But if you write in a high level JITed GCd language then the other cores will be busy making your main thread run faster by profiling it, recompiling it with risky optimisations, clearing garbage asynchronously and so on.
You are right - I should have written more carefully. I strongly disagree with the statement, but you are still a person and the fact that we don't currently agree on this doesn't mean I should insult you. It was bad writing. I did mean to target the statement, not the person.

However your questions in this reply, and the idea that I think the "old ways" are better ... I mean that's not in my argument. That's creating a false binary and trying to contort my statements into something that you can readily dismiss. You are insisting that somehow continuing to improve things means returning to the old ways.

It also seems to be a common tactic used by people with power to justify the status quo. I'm ok with dropping it here since we're apparently talking right past each other.
if you are Amazon you don't have time to read all the reviews carefully. How do you detect such artificial "gaming" behavior? It's natural behavior for the sellers to try to boost their reviews (at the consumers expense).
Adding SASS support to your PawJS/ReactPWA project made super easy- pawjs/sass
> But the UK refuses to be held to account. It is thus an unreliable partner.

Really? Crikey, I had no idea paranoia ran so deep on the European side[1]. Would you care to expand on why Britain apparently refuses to be held to account? As far as I'm aware, Britain is one of the most compliant members of the EU ruleset - aside from our much mentioned and ascribed financial concessions[2], our government doesn't tend to bend the rules to its own whims, as is often the case in France, Spain and Germany (re: abuse of subsidies and stature to corporate behemoths to go on spending sprees on infrastructure concerns in other EU states, in energy and construction in particular).

Galileo is a seperate concern - an EU project whose delivery will be overseen by ESA - and I appreciate the use of it as a pawn in the Brexit negotiations. However, that does somewhat fly in the face of the FrancoAnglo drive towards military cooperation anad partnership, which given the spend and reach of the two largest military EU nations, would make sense to not toy with too much.

To then go further and view the UK as a foe, whereas prior it was seen as a jigsaw-fit partner (we don't have any launch capability or ambitions to do so otherwise) seems .. well, as I said - paranoid.

Brexit's division is not so much divisory as putting a foot down. It's a sentiment shared across Europe, and not acknowledging that is dangerous, I think.

Anyway, love from the UK - we're not out to get you - I think we're just keeping trying to keep our options open.

[1] I don't for a minute think it does - my partner and most of my friends are European and this whole Brexit mess is a frequent topic of conversation. Your stance here is the first I've come across that draws things in such stark, 'cold war' terms. I wonder if you hold the same opinion of the classes in France, Italy and Germany who are as equally unkeen on the European government? Is Britain somehow a deserving outlier of this mode of thinking?

[2] mostly in regard to CAP spending, which now even Macron is beginning to appreciate the damage it causes
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Google has one built into mobile Youtube with Chromecast. When you open a video and go to click the cast button, the "visit advertiser" button immediately shifts right into the place of the cast button, causing you to click into an advertiser website.
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Like I said, operational interpretations are valid, but they don't help explain why monads are useful, because if you only want the operational interpretation then why not build the operational functionality directly into the host language (particularly since most host languages already offer that kind of thing)? E.g. the operational version of Maybe/Option just seems like an overcomplicated version of exceptions - if all you want is a "fail" effect, why not just have it throw an exception and avoid all the extra monadic plumbing.

(I believe there are good reasons you would want to use monads, but only from a denotational perspective, not an operational one)
It's about vaccinations. You're acting as if the discussions on HN are always narrowed down to the EXACT topic. Which is never the case.
Why are you so sure? Waymo demonstrated that they can handle correctly a duck-chasing wheelchair rider that used a broom.
I’m not sure that all the human drivers would have handled it so well.
Ask HN: Deadline stress control
How do you keep calm when things are going south and your expectations are high from yourself ?
> In many respects, an audio CD is more like a vinyl record than a data storage format.

The design is nearly identical to what one would get if one simply literally (almost) digitized a vinyl record. A single long spiral of data on a disk. The most significant shift is that vinyl records read from outside in, while audio CD's read from inside out. Even the method of manufacture is essentially a clone (audio CD's are "pressed" just like vinyl records are "pressed", just in different pressing machinery).

> built with technology from the late 1970s. It had to handle data rates that were incomprehensibly massive for the time, so only the most insanely basic error handling was feasible.

Yes, the limits of late 1970's technology had a huge impact on the overall design, but at the same time the design also took advantage of the fact that audio when being played back in real time is reasonably tolerant of a small level of error resulting from the read-off of the disk. Most listeners would never hear the random errors because they either are below the noise floor of the amplifier tech. at the time, or because the resulting analog wave was close enough to not be noticeably different.
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I should have been more clear I guess; I was comparing it to other popular languages. Few have value types and many that do (like C#) regard them as second-class citizens.
Them Lightning Network Nodes Sure Do Look Centralized to Me What Gives?
There’s something in the human brain that can’t be replicated?
This is just a prototypal IDEA right?
motivation? benchmark? demo? build system?
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It's great. I wish when you choose text-only after clicking a link to NPR it took you to the desired page instead of the homepage.
It should help you get a job. No one says that a mechanical engineer shouldn’t be employable somewhere after they graduate.
If you go to their website right there, first thing you see:

UNLIMITED.

ANY THEATRE. ANY MOVIE. ANY DAY.

ToS:

2.3 The Service excludes premium showings such as: 3D films, IMAX, 4D, XD and specialty theaters. THE SERVICE PROHIBITS REPEAT VIEWINGS OF THE SAME MOVIE....The Service is available every day of the week, subject to the theater being open, inventory, and usage.

2.4 MoviePass reserves the right to offer members a new price option if they exceed watching a certain amount of movies per month.

2.4.ii To the extent that IMAX or RealD 3D or other premium format showings are ever offered to subscribers, these showings will also be subject to surcharge pricing....Subscribers may avoid this surcharge by choosing an alternative date, time of day or film.

So it's not unlimited - it's limited to 1 movie per day. It's not any theatre, it excludes specialty theatres. It's not any movie, high profile blockbusters are excluded. It's not any day, high demand days you won't get tickets.

Even if this company were successful, they're a damn slimey company. Quite nice to see them going out of business.
Tractable is applying AI to accident and disaster appraisal
I also think the headline seems misleading, even if you start reading the first few paragraphs.

I think advice giving doesn't necessarily confer power. Especially if you're always handing out unwanted advice, a lot of people don't like that. They get hurt in their pride because they believe they can do it without you.

If you want to exercise power through advice you have to ask good questions to find out whether the advised person actually needs your advice, and in which area specifically. You have to get to a point where they actually ask for it.
NBT and the newer compressed mapformat Anvil (developed from MCChunks mod if memory serves correctly) is not that straightforward to parse and lots of tools easily corrupt Minecraft worlds. In addition to that, you can then compress again using gzip or zlib (with little indication of which you picked other than "try and see which one crashes"), in some cases certain NBT files cannot be compressed in others only one compression is allowed.

The data is also big endian, unlike most computers use internally (unless you use Pocket version then it's little endian, and again, isn't specified which to use).

The current anvil format isn't a simple 3d bitmap either, it uses various method to compress out empty space from the 3d bitmap and leaves out any chunks that weren't changed at all since generated.
Rationals are an interesting default choice, since they can have nasty performance corner-cases related to finding GCDs for large integers. For instance, note that the numerator & denominator of the rational results are both growing at (roughly) an order of magnitude per iteration.
That could be a feature.
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I do too, but I’ve recently found out that’s really hard to do if there’s a completely different but much better way.
Wait amazon edits your reviews? That's shaddy as hell, I can understand removing a review for "strong language" but changing its content without asking the author is borderline scammy.

I couldn't find similar stories online (although admittedly that's pretty hard to search for). I'd think it would be a big deal if Amazon was caught doing that, wouldn't it be?
Ask HN: Office decision-makers: Why did you chose open space?
I'd like answers from the actual decision-makers. Why did you do it, knowing that employee compensation costs far exceed real estate costs, and open-space reduces productivity?

(I'd prefer not to hear from those who suffer from the open-space here, but rather from those who chose it, or who have reliable, direct reports.)
Definitely. I’m sad that they’re not more idiomatic in C#. I definitely prefer values and references over OOP class objects.
It's explained here: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/27/health/exploring-salines-...
So the lesson you learned is that mass education is bad? ...
This kind of doesn't surprise me.

I know I tend to buy what has the best price/star ratio. Whether or not Amazon is directly involved, I don't know. But given how quickly marketing got attached to social media, I imagine gaming reviews is just another part of an online presence package, along with controlling search results, and getting something popular into social outlets (a meme is highly desired).

Irony being people are starting to adapt and most of these social media and reviews will just be bots commenting on each other.
Rust compiler cannot be built without test failures on Debian and Fedora
I did a lot of work on anti-botting some years ago. It's not as easy as it looks. Often you spot a pattern that is obviously fake, like here, but discover it can't generalise without huge numbers of false positives.

For example I would expect lots of legitimate users to review the same small set of TV shows or video games if they buy into a series or franchise.
I saw an emoji-decorated reddit thread about the new release of a library I really like.
I commented how maybe emojis are not appropriate for serious code releases,
I was ignored.

The next release was also announced with an emoji-decorated title...

I guess I'm old already at 32
Dumbest..?
Are those blocks? That’s adorable! Toddlers love this.

Personally the blocky/pixel look is dated, but it’s new to someone, kids.
Is it just me, or do the System 2 forms borrow from Opera's current O?
I don’t think there’s anything borderline about it. Sounds like outright fraud to me.
It's not necessarily a resource problem, from my time there there is an institutional lack of respect toward UX and front end and this is might still be the case.

There's also a myriad of custom Perl templates that are essentially impossible to maintain. I once had to investigate where a feedback form sent feedback to, the answer was nowhere for about a year.
Funny, I like Pepsi, but it confused me when they changed the logo. (I guess because I don't watch TV.) At first I probably thought it was some cheap knock-off.
Nice bait.
Why not jump on the Corda mailing lists and follow along as we work on these things?

The network map is a component I've spent a lot of time thinking about and working on, to make it more and more decentralised over time. Because yes a lot of users flag the same thing you have.

Corda has some simple features to mitigate this. For instance nodes have an additional-node-info directory where you can drop NodeInfo files. These act as overlays on the data received from the zone's network map. If the zone operator removes a party from the network map for some reason (maybe a court order, maybe a commercial dispute, or whatever) then you can just drop their NodeInfo file in this directory and it'll be as if they're still in the map.

So the idea is that the zone operator acts as a coordinator and provider of advice, but it doesn't have real control - node operators can always override whatever advice it's giving out.
Do you know what Minecraft is? Asking because you seem surprised at the style.
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No need to look so far for dark patterns, the whole trick to get you to click to become a member for Amazon Prime, constantly, using all the dirty tricks in the book, should deserve a whole page in itself.
Ask HN: What is you current side income?
Because of the nature of humanity, I have noticed that instead of gratitude for a non permanent income. People tend to retain the memory of being stripped of a benafit, rather than the years of help it provided. My neighbor (a former stripper) has had 8 years of rent paid by a government program. She now blames all of her problems on this subsidy ending. I don't have the courage to ask her why she isn't grateful for 8 years of housing.
For dead authors, the inheritance regulates who gets to control the copyright. Usually inheritance works out, the state puts a lot of money into finding lost relatives if everything else fails.

The publisher to my knowledge cannot claim copyright over composition, layout, typesetting or the PDF unless they can show they had significant copyrightable work in each step. (Copyright in Germany first requires you to do some significant intellectual work, where significant changes based on what you do but science usually has a higher barrier)

If the PDF contains a trademark of theirs then that's a problem.

Generally a pre-print PDF should be available in almost all cases and could be published without Elsevier's input. If not that, Universities do archive the Tex files (or similar inputs) if possible so they could take those.