skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My Dad's Friendship With Charles Barkley
Figma uses WASM and some claim that it's even faster than natively implemented Sketch.

I am surprised that now it's possible to make a web app as fast as native app.

Is Visual Studio Code using WASM?
So, what, he killed himself to cynically manipulate public opinion?
How tiny backpacks are turning bees into living drones
It's not clear why this wordy, rambling article is being upvoted.

I expected to see a deep-dive into the Stellar Consensus protocol. Instead, the article takes until its second half to finish its introduction for beginners. Nevertheless, what's described still sounds like the Ripple Consensus Process.

For those interested in an informed, technical deep-dive into RCP, this video may be helpful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7abKUs9tYZg
It doesn't work. You will not want other human to purchase stuff using your account either; it is not only parrot. And also, television shows, telephone, etc. And even if you accidentally do, so it should not make the purchase immediately without needing a confirmation. And also in case of a liar.

Actually, voice activated computer has many other problem I think; I prefer using the keyboard to enter commands.
USGS Announces Largest Continuous Oil Assessment in Texas and New Mexico
Email address/phone number, not house address.

But I personally love my bluetooth tracker...and they finally made one that takes replaceable coin cells!
Food stamps appeared before the collapse of the USSR. Most places in USSR proper had them in late 80s, and a few even in late 70s.
Because it's CGI.

Except with vendor lock-in.
I suggested making them copyright licenses and contracts simultaneously. Anything copyright doesnt cover goes into the contract. More, cheaper lawyers should be able to understand it.

I think I read here one court already ruled the software licenses are both types of law in action. That's a start. :)
I have used the parental lock setting on the television for a similar purpose (avoiding an unintended purchase). Although, there is no parrot in here nor anyone who would make any of these purchases anyways, but it can protect against accidentally doing, too.
View-Master was launched in 1939. A friend has a stash of the disks from the early 1940s depicting National Parks and everyday life across the US. You can imagine how amazing a ‘journey’ across the country would have been to someone of that era.
What's a security update? I don't expect them to be responsible for my security - that's my burden as the user to make sure that I'm using software and files I personally trust.
This seems like a reasonable interpretation. People from other cultures may also be excused from cultural norms to some extent as people understand that they don't have the context. And I've definitely gotten very good at politely diffusing situations where I've accidentally crossed social boundaries (I have more problems when I take moral issue with the social norm, and thus am unwilling to go along with it).
One way to implement socialism is to simply withdraw protection for private (as opposed to personal) property on state level. A subset of that is to get rid of the state altogether, which obviously withdraws all protections that state might provide. Capitalism requires the ability to own and accumulate capital, but that only works if you can rely on the security of what you already own - and if society refuses to recognize your ownership, it's pretty hard.

Or one could go further and actively prosecute people who try to do anything "capitalistic" (e.g. offer services for pay). That is the model that USSR, and all countries in its sphere of influence, used.
Go fund yourself: The power of working capital for startups
I know — in fact that’s my girlfriend’s field.

Nevertheless it’s hardly the first term abused for dramatic effect. I eagerly await the day with I can actually interact with machines.
I downvoted it. I also downvoted you for whining about it.

To be honest, I downvoted because I disagree, yes. But more to the point, I find it so dangerously ridiculous AND the same sad “whataboutism” that always gets commented in response to whatever China’s latest human rights atrocity is. It annoys me. Yes, I could post a long substantive comment explaining why I think this is the road to civilization’s ruin, but I don’t always have the time :)

Also, if you think that HN doesn’t downvote based on agreement, you must not post anything controversial often. I can almost always predict how my comments are going to perform within a few points.
That's my view of it as well. I distinctly remember both states of mind: not understanding and intimately understanding. I'm not sure there's a way to bridge the gap, the ignorance and incredulous attitude I had was unassailable.

I remember it with shame but I hold onto the memory so I never forget what it's like to not understand someone else's life or perspective.
I am talking about the sort of prepaid calling cards that you might buy at a gas station or convenience store. I don't know what would happen if you called their customer service line and asked for the logs of your card...
The Vital Engines of Commerce
People can get your address from an email or phone number with ease. Be safe out there!
Boys need better access to mental health care. Why aren't they getting it?
Is the main purpose massive parallelism? I was under the impression it was mostly for rarely used resources, because you only pay when you use them.
When you say 'someone in the room with him', does it have to be a human? Would another parrot suffice? What about other pets (large dogs for example)?
Reading Between the MLPerf Lines
I always worked for small companies early in my career for exactly this. The suspicion that large corporations are driven by egotistical sociopaths.

Now that I've worked for a large corporation I have proof that I was right (YMMV). Not only that, egos can become such a barrier to progress that projects within these companies become what I would consider criminally incompetent.
I’d argue given that they worked to get it to happen, they aren’t .. “evil” for monetizing an overview on their own platform in the end.
This is really stuck up and unrealistic. People need connection and Facebook provides that. Provide an alternative or suck it up. Positive and negative causes both feed off of what Facebook has to offer. Being high and mighty isn't going to be enough to fix what is wrong here.
Here in the US in the eighties, my father had a similar tag (made of metal) which even somehow included postage, such that someone could take the keys and put them into the nearest mailbox and they'd be returned to a company which would relay them to the person who lost them. I don't remember if it came from a car insurance company, a bank, his employer, or what but it was a good idea that never really took off. (come to think of it, quite possibly because having keys on a postal conveyor belt might cause no end of problems)
The idea (and practice) of "code ownership" is one of the most annoying things. First of all, it creates an atmosphere of some kind of laziness and lack of responsibility on the part of the individual team members (perhaps, not all, but still) for the results of the entire team's work. It also promotes what in my view is a rather insidious habit of assuming that if someone has wrote a piece of code long ago they are still responsible for it and, moreover, they are ready to instantly answer any question about it, as if it is supposed to stay fresh in the developer's mind forever.
I have a small embedded device (that runs OpenBSD) that serves as the router here at home. It works wonderfully for me and serves my needs well but it definitely wouldn't be a good choice for 99% of "home router administrators".

Likewise, OpenWRT (and similar open-source router firmware) is a big step up in quality than probably pretty much anything any router manufacturer ships.

Here's the thing... <rant>

You and I -- and, I'd wager, the overwhelming majority of HN readers -- are easily capable of replacing our stock firmware, locking it down, keeping it up-to-date, and so on. Unfortunately, the average person (who likely just buys one of the cheapest routers they can find on the shelf at Walmart or Best Buy or similar) isn't.

The average consumer simply doesn't understand that many of these devices they buy -- especially all of the new "Internet of Things" devices that have been popping up the last few years -- are completely insecure pieces of trash. Hell, many of them don't even care -- well, until it directly affects them personally, at least -- so long as "it works". They have no desire to learn a ton of stuff about computing, networking, or security -- they just want the ability to monitor what's going on in their house while they're away or whatever -- and they cannot understand why they should be required to (and I, personally, don't blame them). They don't know about the whole "convenience versus security" continuum or just how far away from the "security" side of that continuum that these devices they're buying to make life more convenient are.

The average consumer (rightfully) expects that these devices that are available for them to purchase and install in their homes are (reasonably) "secure". They simply aren't aware of the sorry state of (in)security in the software industry.

I think that within the next few years we'll begin to see (in the U.S., at least) some regulation with regard to security and software. I don't think any of us really WANT this to happen (it would be much better if the industry were "self-policing", of course) but it has become apparent that those who are producing these devices simply aren't going to devote the resources required to improve the security of their products until they are forced to. </rant>

(Related: for the last seven years (until very recently) I worked for a small ISP. I was amazed at how very little many of the employees -- including the ones responsible for all of the networking gear! -- knew or even cared about security. With the exception of myself (and a recent college graduate who we hired as, basically, my "junior") nobody even thought about security unless or until "something happened" that required them to. Having experienced that, it became clear to me that the average person REALLY isn't gonna give a damn.)
> 1. It does not seem impossible to imagine a function that spawns code close to data, be it on a VM with a connected fast SSD drive already populated with data. Also, Lambda-at-edge and Cloudflare workers are already more like “shipping code to data.”, or " the customer" in this case.

This would work, of course. But doesn't it defeat at least some of the convenience of a "serverless" architecture if I still need to manage/configure servers with attached (and pre-populated) storage?

> 2. Functions are load-balanced and potentially parallelisable to millions of invocations...

Continuing from point (1), if the code needs to run proximate to data it may be difficult to achieve a huge number of parallel invocations. My parallel capacity is limited by the number of servers available for function execution, which is only those servers with direct/fast access to storage.
$50?
It's not the compile times that keep C codebases slim, it's the primitive build system. There's no notion of modules, so every project has to cobble together an equivalent thing, generally relying on make, autotools and its successors, and the result is both incompatible across projects and incompatible across slightly different build environments.

It's a failing of the Unix model with a small silver lining in that C projects tend to go out of their way not to have to make the build any harder than it already is.
I would continue arguing that "unsolvable" is not a valid solution to this puzzle. If the description asks you to "find the solution" and the solution does not exist, then it is a riddle, not a puzzle.
> If it’s truly open source, one business shouldn’t dominate the project’s development. That’s tantamount to the project becoming shared source that accepts community contributions.

Open Source has never meant anything of the sort. You always have a tyranny of the maintainer. Whether that's because it's one guy's hobby project and he's not interested in your patch because he doesn't personally need it, or because it's some giant corporation and it doesn't align with their interest, or anything in between.

In either case, Open Source has never been about other people being obligated to do work for you, which is what accepting a patch amounts to. Most contributors don't stick around, so integrating something means carrying technical debt going forward.

It's about you being able to say the maintainer is wrong, and invest your own time in maintaining a fork or a local patch. Anything beyond that (like upstream accepting your patch) is just gravy.
This is such horse shit. Might as well dress your spy as Mario to blend in in Italy. Europeans do not stand or hold a cigarette differently.
If this is meant for "testing ones equipment", and most devices will be destroyed in the process, then a test means a sacrifice of the device. Short of actual security/test professionals who would want that? Malicious use is "condemned" but all I see in this USB killer IS malicious use...
A lot of Chinese organizations make stuff and sell that.
That's what mocks are for.

I shall respectfully disagree with you here. I mean, yes, obviously that is literally what mocks are for, but I have never found mocks to be a particularly effective or valuable tool for testing. They can take a disproportionate amount of time to write and maintain if whatever real external system they stand in for is complicated. They are inherently fragile if that system is subject to change. Most importantly, even if those tests pass, you don't actually know whether your real system is going to work, and IMHO the greatest benefits of automated testing are found where you can systematically and repeatably exercise exactly the behaviour and interactions you might see in production.
yeah shift if you prefer. I get your point though, it's definitely something very deep biologically, and often twist your ego in a new shape (I'd add "I'll be all that my parents weren't")
Thanks I meant Mosaic, of course.
Love those pendants!
too late to edit, but the article title is beyond misleading. it's completely irrelevant.

this article is about how any contractor (commonly seen for home improvement and software, as the examples in the article are), will bid exactly to spec and not do anything else, which you as employer may have just assumed would be part of the deal.

it's about how not to be a stupid employer. in homebuilding, you do that by hiring a GC. is there an equivalent for software?
The definition of republic has held up. It's still true that we are a republic, even under modern English. Some call it a democratic republic but notice no one calls it a republican democracy.
yeah that's a common idea/goal. personally I really wanted kids when I had a deep relationship with someone.. and somehow I wanted to make copies of her .. don't laugh.
To quote the Guidelines: "Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading." Votes tend to improve a lot over time as more users visit, so just wait.
I'd bet most package theives in my neighbourhood would end up trying it out at the public library.
By what measure? All you see is a framed seconds. What you don't see is all the hours these influencers spend begging someone, anyone to give them a freebie or some kind of support. Then they get the free hotel room, and they spend the rest of the time on shitty wifi trying to line up the next freebie. Then when you add up all the time they spent, it works out to probably be below minimum wage. There is no way some nobody with even 1MM followers is making a sustainable living and saving the future.

Sure, these people get to go places, but are they ever really looking at it through the eyes of relaxation? It just seems miserable to me actually. I feel the same way about actors, the job of acting actually sucks, but at least they get million dollar payouts at the end. The instagram 'stars' are lucky to get a free hotel room and a discounted flight.
True although paradoxically there is one aspect that is reversed - genital surgery is harder and less functional to construct a functioning penis from a vagina than to create a more or less functional vagina from a penis. Put crudely but succinctly as 'it is easier to make a hole than build a pole'.

Reminds me of the one bit of weirdness with birds - they have the opposite convention of sex assignment being based upon ZW where males are ZZ and females are ZW. Females also have two ovaries but only one of them is active and the inactive one produces testosterone - meaning that if the primary one lost functionality they would start spontaneously masculinizing.
>zygohistomorphic prepromorphism[0]

Incredible that someone can say this and not be shitposting.

0: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/slamdata/matryoshka/master...
Yacc is a parser generator, not a scanner generator. You meant lex/flex.
This is pedantic, but technically that animation is for opening a link in the background ("Open in Background"). The animation for opening a link in a new tab ("Open in New Tab") is quite a bit different. Background vs New Tab is a setting in Mobile Safari's preferences. New Tab is the default, so most people have probably never seen the animation you're referring to.
> As I understand it, there's no current plans for WebAssembly to include a garbage collector

There are plans to add a garbage collector. See https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/10/webassemblys-post-mvp-futu.... But meanwhile, Webassembly is mainly just for C and Rust.
I wasn't there, but there would have been imported Agfa film and the local color film was called Smena, I think.
I think that "archaic" definition still has plenty of modern salience. Whenever someone is complaining that a majority of the people support xyz or wanted so-and-so as President but didn't get it, they are appealing to "democracy". Whenever someone responds by saying that's just fine and that the point of the system isn't to translate majority wills into policy, they are appealing to a notion of republicanism.
Electing representatives to manage the government is the defining part of a republic. When citizens are voting on laws themselves, they are practicing actual democracy. That's relatively rare in the U.S. and it also only happens at the state and local level.
She's just tapping a market with a huge demand and no one offering any "supply."

There are no university courses for "instagram star" so if you're the charlatan who is promising fame and fortune for the low low price of $500, there are plenty of people willing to hop on board. If anything I would say 500 people is really low.
I don’t think that’s totally true, and admittedly its somewhat arbitrary where to distinguish chemistry from medicine in this regard, but eg Humorism was a pretty popular theory until (IIRC) a chemist disproved it.
The "bootstrapable.org" project that OP refers to...

“Strappable” has 2 P’s... Link: https://bootstrappable.org/
There's certain Catholic pilgrimages where you're supposed to complete a journey on your knees, usually to commemorate someone's martyrdom. The 'Sancta Scala' in Rome is the most famous example but I can think off a bunch in different countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_Sancta
Where are you now?
> As a German, I have to ask why should that be any of the US's business?

Because those networks might be integrated internally and any vulnerabilities or backdoors in equipment installed in other countries might offer a jumping off point to access US parts of the network.
I mean, not games, but more giving food, heating the cat tree a bit, things with more physical implications.
Here's the $5 version:

https://www.amazon.com/Stalwart-75-HT3000-Natural-Hardwood-H...
In college, we had a class about high-level languages and the teacher decided to go with APL. Many of my colleagues complained they'd never use APL professionally and that some other language, with more ready practical use (we already had FORTRAN and everyone was fluent in BASIC) would be a better choice. They were right, of course, in that they'd never use APL professionally. They were stupendously wrong in that it was a profoundly enlightening experience.

Once you learn APL, you gain a super-compact mathematical notation in which to express computation.

You also learn the value of extensive comments and of avoiding being clever - if you try to be clever, you won't understand your program 5 seconds after having written it.

And, if you are really lucky, you'd have learned what a beam-spring keyboard feels like. :-)
Not that I’m aware of.
> what do you think a government agency might see as misconduct that you see as legitimate?

I'm not the GP, but that one is easy:

- Discovering that some drug is ineffective (or worse) when the manufacturer has made party contributions;

- Discovering that some public policy does not benefit the population while it benefits some politician;

- Any research on a propaganda line with results that are not aligned with the official truths.
> I had supplied a war winning weapon to one organizational faction and the other factions were not happy

The real problem is that there are adversarial relationships within the organization. It can be an ego issue, or perverse incentives, or conflicting departmental objectives, or short-term thinking. Anyone who doesn't spend their time focused on politics or covering their ass will still have their motivation sapped, and soon no-one will care about making the product better.

The non-dysfunctional response is "great initiative, we'll get a meeting together and discuss the pros and cons of implementing your spike."
PC Engines APU2 fanless PC has multiple NICs, optional LTE/SSD, AMD CPU and coreboot open-source firmware. Widely used with pfSense and OpenBSD. TPM available via LPC bus.
Note that’s more “integrate with a host’s GC” than it is “add a GC.” A subtle but important difference.
There are some subtle cultural differences however such as table manners. The inspiration for Fawty Towers was angry at Terry Gilliam for eating with the fork in the 'wrong' hand for instance. The gait part however seems a bit questionable.
Whut? Look at what you quoted: I said exactly that I can!
Gary, Indiana is not a ghost town. It's downtown area may be pretty abandoned but it's got a population of 76,000.

http://worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/gary-in-populatio...

There are a huge number of abandoned cities in Northern Michigan, especially in the Upper Peninsula.

http://www.ghosttowns.com/states/mi/mi.html
It's our temptation to think that, being complicit with the corrupt system that destroyed him.
Markets couldn't have existed before capitalism, because capitalism is just a market.
Yep! This is a key insight.

Even beyond that, there are two approaches you can take: writing your app in wasm, or writing libraries in wasm. Languages with larger runtimes may work for apps, but you don’t want to use them for libraries, because then you lug around every runtime for every language used. Even once wasm can integrate with the host’s GC, non-GC’d languages will have a place in implementing core libraries, for the same reason those languages have c extensions rather than extensions in other large runtime languages today.
That's why I had high expectations :) I'll keep it round and approach more patiently
I hear of APL being used in high-frequency trading and other financial spaces. It's not only because of the language's expressive power, but because the whole runtime fits well within the CPU's instruction cache and, therefore, your program will be ridiculously fast.