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> Does WASM have better performance than the JVM? If not, could it have better performance theoretically? Is it more secure? How much slower than a regular binary would it be? etc.

Hard to answer as they're different domains. In theory, once optimized and JIT'd, the asm could be the same on non-GC'd sections. JVM bytecode is higher level which means it both benefits (i.e. can optimize more) and is hamstrung (i.e. GC). As for a "regular binary", the JVM knows no such thing and really neither does WASM. Also depends on what "regular" is (i.e. what does the code do) and which runtimes you use and how much is AOT'd vs JIT'd vs interpreted.
At design time, we use the connection string specified in the qfconfig.json file, or the one you specify in the .sql file. At run time, you supply the method that creates the connection, so you should be able to do whatever you want.

Stored procedures are automatically supported. It's just SQL. We can discover the return type and create the wrapper just as we can for a query. But SQL in it's own file feels so much like stored procedures, you might prefer to store and version your SQL with your app code rather than create procedures that live in the database.
Interedting. I usually associate it with a second meaning...a trivial, of no real consequence, fact.
The J-type 327 Nubian royal starship from the prequels was basically an SR-71 ripoff.
Because you’re not just telegraphing it to your competitor, you’re moving the entire market and affecting the bid/ask and price transparency for all its participants. That affects liquidity, derivatives, a lot of downstream negatives.

That said, there are narrow instances where you can place less-than-real orders in a market [0]... it just has to be a market that is nearly and completely illiquid.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-12-04/trying...
Viral earworms such as this: https://youtu.be/MTkhrosH8xw
> The issue is trash disposal especially in third world countries.

It's partly trash. It's also partly clothing, which makes up huge amounts of microplastic. It's also partly industrial equipment such as fishing nets.
The idea that something so expensive and complicated could be considered one-use disposable is amazing.

Titan II ICBMs?
"The fungus turned up in other countries, but studies of its DNA suggest that Bd originated on the Korean Peninsula. In Asia, amphibians seem impervious to Bd, but when it got to other parts of the world — probably via the international trade in pet amphibians — the pathogen reached hundreds of vulnerable species."

How long will it be before we realize that perhaps the globe wasn't designed for globalization?

Note: I'm not a Luddite. I'm simply doing the analysis and stating the obvious.
> You need 3kx higher levels to even approach danger levels

The article almost starts talking about bio-concentration, but veers away after talking about findings in seals.

Just because the open water concentration is well below safe levels does not mean that everything is hunky-dory. Cesium is an element that can be bio-concentrated, and then consumed as part of the food chain. It's not a simple thing to say this is "completely safe".
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For a comparison, remember every living being still has contaminants from the nuclear bombs detonated over fifty years ago.
Moving to Go at work has made me incredibly happy. It really is a fun language and I tend to use it for my side-projects as well

Coming from Java, I find that I don't miss generics and exceptions as much anymore as I thought I would :)
Thanks! By "can't find", I'd meant, "not in a place where I can take the time" because my build was about to finish, sorry.

I think this SA article's title is a bit hyperbolic, frankly. The editor's note even cites the article's text having been changed so as not to say that. But not the headline...
I'm guessing the same reason people get off on, say, looking at big asses (or feet). Why does anybody get off on anything besides regular, biological, strictly-procreational sex?
You're right, a lot of other animals are less affected by radiation than humans. But a lot of that is our long lifespan, so we live long enough to see the major affects of mutations.
As one example, a lot of Windows software assumes it's running on a case-insensitive filesystem, so projects like Wine would benefit from this quite a bit (historically, the only way to run case-insensitive-FS-assuming software on Linux is to either actually point that software to something case-insensitive like NTFS or use a FUSE-based userspace FS to add case-insensitivity to specific folders).

This also applies to games where the modding community primarily uses Windows and thus has zero concept of case consistency (I recall this being a major issue at one point - if not still - for the Linux ports of the recent Civ games).
A quick Google search of "quora" can also yield numerous sources stating it is full of bullshit. Of course, a quick Google search of any of those further sources will probably lead to the same thing...
It is also a front page for "Show HN" (which lots of people will read on their mobiles) and it is related to web design.

There are readable references: https://getbootstrap.com/docs/3.4/css/ https://vuejs.org/v2/api/ https://docs.python.org/3.7/reference/index.html

Even just saying in the page that it's not supposed to work well on my device would be better.
The weapon that can never really be used without risking mutually assured destruction.
That's awesome. One of my main complaints with wasm-bindgen is it doesn't let you pull in any C libraries(vs older emscripten path) effectively walling off one of Rusts awesome capabilities(interop with a large established ecosystem).

Whatever tool that takes it's place here would be awesome if you plug in cleanly with the CC crate. I've had a lot of success using Rust as the glue between a lot of existing C/C++ libraries and would love to carry that forward to the WASM world.
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To be honest, once you start a global nuclear war you don't need anything that is re-usable.
It's beyond absurd.

Last year my system cut her finger quite deeply while dealing with a can opener, at ~9.30pm. It wasn't an ambulance-worthy emergency but still, it didn't look good. So we called our emergency number and they sent out an "ambulance lite", basically a paramedic and a doctor who's just finished university.

The cut wasn't serious despite the great loss of blood, but it was in a tricky spot and the young doctor didn't want to deal with it without a second opinion. So they took her to the ER, and we followed by car.

At the ER, within 45 minutes, she had seen the doctor on call that night and got the stitches put on from the cosmetic surgeon on duty that night.

Not only it didn't cost us 1 cent but we even got a free cup of coffee out of it, offered by one the ambulance drivers who was on call that night.

I envy a lot of things about the US, but not their medical care.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. . . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

-Dwight D. Eisenhower
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And i do like to use my web browser non-maximized in my 1366x768 monitor yet every other site forces me to maximize because it thinks that since my browser's width is less than 1024 or whatever threshold they come up with, it is actually a mobile phone and switch to that, making the already overenlarged UI elements cover as much real estate as my entire fist.

Which sucks.

But that is the world we live in. The more tools we give the designers, the more they will abuse everything they can.

CSS was a mistake, the web should have stayed in HTML 3.2.
Clearly, whoever designed the Pixelbook keyboard talked to real users. I wish I could dual boot to Ubuntu on this machine.
Right, but a camera reconnaissance platform is a very different thing than starting WW3 with an ICBM launch.

But imagine the US freakout if the Soviet Union had built something comparable in capability to the SR71 and overflown CONUS during the cold war.
Yeah I tried it once, buying off-brand legos from Ebay. It's truly night and day in terms of quality.
Well I think the problem lies in that all his examples were from outside the US, and not only during 2018 which is when and where you gave an example. Here's another source that is only in the US that seems to agree with Wildgoose [1](pdf) from 2010-2016. This source certainly doesn't count as many deaths (note your link said their were 313 deaths from right-wing extremists from 2009-2018) it only goes from 2010-2016 saying there were 140 deaths (note your link also says 50 deaths happened by right wing extremists in 2018). I'm not sure what the discrepancy is there in not accounting for all the deaths from your link. This link states that from 2010-2016 68 deaths were from Jihadist-inspired terrorists while 18 deaths were from white nationalists and extremists. Yet again it would be nice to see data from the whole of the West.

Just to give you another source from the same people which seems to agree with Wildgoose's parent atleast with its reasoning (albeit by making a few qualifiers on the dataset that bend it to be in favor of that reasoning) [2] from 2001-2016 in the US.

[1](pdf): https://www.start.umd.edu/pubs/START_IdeologicalMotivationsO...
[2]: https://www.start.umd.edu/pubs/START_ECDB_IslamistFarRightHo...
Because what may prove practical over a long term may not do so in the short or medium term.

And because what counts as “practicality” changes as people progress through their careers, but the foundations required to meet each new standard of what counts as practical often remain the same (or change less).
And let's not forget frogs eat insects. The point being, a weakened frog might become even more so from lack of food.

It seems that humans are so busy, self-absorbed and "proud" about what we can do that we're not considering other species might not be as resilient to changes in the habitat. Perhaps that's too obvious for us?
Pretty sure some googlers can chime in or someone will dig a post from that time but I seem to recall the inability for Google to crawl facebook private profiles, where juicy profiling bits live, was one of the incentives for google to get into the game. And the fact that someone at Google freaked out over the sn revolution but don't quote me on that.

I am pretty sure I read the demise of google reader was because it's hard to make money off of RSS/Atom and harder to bolt adtech on top of it.

Google had wave, blogger, orkut and other things. It's not like they didn't test different things or try to emulate others. They just failed edit: they failed with g+ I mean

I am more amazed at how microsoft had the messenger brand and how it's now facebook's. It's mind boggling. And ms had a blogging strategy at some point.
pentalobe screws?
Eisenhower farewell address:

https://youtu.be/OyBNmecVtdU
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I thought it was a great idea as a social network graph, so you could share things on various Google properties (e.g. ACLs for photos). It also had a lot of potential as a contact sync method.

Too bad Google kept promoting it like it was just another Facebook news feed.
How were the markets less free in the south? From what I know from history the difference was that south was more agriculture focused and this meant they had different interest then the north , I am not from US so I did not studied all the details of US history.

Even if say free market solved the issue, is it reasonable to wait centuries for the free markets to solve things then dare to vote some laws ?
"You can't catch me 'cause the rabbit done died"

- Aerosmith, Sweet Emotion
Start making schooling moreso about doing actual practical "on the job" type work?
Anything could happen, but given that white males are currently getting a combined ~64% in polls, it's pretty silly to say that running as a white male is a 'major problem'.
I read that in another heavily upvoted comment on here in an earlier discussion a week or so ago. I really shouldn't assume that randoms on the internet know what they're talking about.

Anyway, thanks for the correction.
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Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed by Ben Rich is really good
A few hours? I've been using SO suite of sites for years and only last year did I get over 50 on a single one

The reputation for commenting is way too high. I can't count how many times I could have contributed but for the silly reputation requirement. I've given up trying to contribute.

And based on the answers I've been seeing, it doesn't serve it's purpose anyway.
Ask HN: Are Australian Encryption Laws Affecting Employees Already?
Mentioned in a [1] previous post, some people are worried about employment opportunities for Australians, based on these restrictive new encryption laws. Has anyone encountered trouble as an Australian or working in Australia?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19507211
I think "non-practical" was perhaps poor wording.

I assume what the parent meant was a "data structures and algorithms" course, compared with say, "How to code in Java using the standard library".

The latter is "practical" - you can take what you learn and churn out code in Java.

The former is "non-practical" - you can't make the theories you now understand function without a practical implementation. But you can recognize the implementation in any environment, and understand its implications.

The general assertion is that an understanding of the "non-practical" will serve you longer than a purely "practical" education. I tend to agree.
It took me three hours ( and I waited patiently for more responses ) before receiving the information and picking what seemed like an reasonable course of action. I obviously googled before to prepare myself of having my HSA wiped out. The horror stories told me it would be.[0]

In fact when the walk in center referred me to an ortho and said "It will be expensive. Here's a list of good ones" I asked if it was going to be "$800 dollar expensive?" at which point I was looked at by both the front-desk person and the Emergency medicine doctor as if I had grew two heads in front of them. They said "About 250 to see a specialist and about $800 for an MRI."

One of the two surgeons that I have selected based on their responses who could see me the next day were on the list of good ones ( ~30 ) that I was provided by the walk in center. No referral code was needed.

The surgeon offices, the walk in center and the physical therapists were having near orgasmic reactions hearing that it was going to be paid as a part of high deductible plan because it means that it is paid from a regular Mastercard as if I was a cash patient, immediately, the same day.

[0] I have taken friends to ER. They were never seen faster than 3-4 hours.
> If I was Google I would be providing easy to use blogging site, blog readers and a loose social network that encouraged links to other sites (perhaps similar to HN on a larger scale) that would be easy for third-parties to integrate.

So, Blogger? Feels kind of abandoned as a product, though.
Reminds me of Amartya Sen's quote "...whatever you can rightly say about India, the opposite is also true".
A lot of systemic issues will only be resolved as the society progresses, and there is a long way ahead for India.
A version of that great chart mentioned in the comment above can be found on page 3 of this pdf: http://www.stat.rice.edu/~dobelman/courses/texts/leemis.dist...
I was friends with this kid and I will associate Three Words with him instead!

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The fact is if you don't understand your own argument then you aren't in a position to make claims and demands. I'm not denying anything, you're just besting your chest. Which if you could read anyone else's words as much as you claim you've read about climate change, you'd realize is a central problem into getting people on board with science. Fix your toxic attitude if you actually care about the things you claim.
Presumably detection of all dynamic code loading is hard, especially since people also get pissed at google whenever there is a false positive and an app is removed for seemingly no reason.
Trivia: when I wrote Redis I was not aware of Memcached, only heard the name multiple times but I did not know what it exactly was.
While not everything learned in an undergraduate computer science program is practical in the sense that you'll use it all the time in the real world, there are a fair number of topics that while not necessary 99% of the time turn out to be the best solution that other 1% of the time. Finite state automata, for example, isn't something I'd bother to learn about but has proven helpful a handful of times.
Native WebAssembly sure is an exciting topic. But I can't think of a single concrete use case that someone could use---besides having another standard for secure bytecode to choose from. Help?
Yes it did!

Oh the odd connections between all these living things and their chemicals.
Interesting you cite Facebook given their CEO and COO both have degrees from the highest ranked humanities university in the US.
> I could have learned what I did in a much shorter time.

I think people with CS degrees working the field could probably re-cover all of the content of their degree in 4-5 months of independent study, however, there's a lot of school which is deliberative practice. Hours that you need to spend getting good at understanding concepts, writing proofs and building the skill of critical thinking in a computing context.

I think post graduation there's a tendency to compress that period and forget about the hours of practice and just being terrible at building things that it took to gain the craftsman's mind.
Nope, I'm seeing clasp for the first time -- Christian Schafmeister's talk was extremely nice to listen to!

I did come across some small LISP implementations at the early stages, but by that time I already had the AST builder done. Maybe because I didn't actively search for LISP implementations, as I didn't need a 'proper' LISP per se, more of a DSL for quickly writing ASTs of arbitrary complex computational expressions. Those ASTs were the final goal ; )
Yes, I have seen that a few times. E.g. some own question:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9945648/
Or another one, which recovered now: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9946322 (Initially votes were all negative, but over time more and more positive votes came.)
Why? Can't the vote? There is even such a thing as activist shareholders.
Even the bugs, if there are any, are not likely to be original. That's why the idea of increasing software reliability by combining multiple independently-developed implementations of a set of requirements with a voting strategy is not as effective as it would appear under the assumption of uncorrelated errors.
It's sad, but I've simply accepted that this will be the future. Anyone who has unorthodox opinions on controversial opinions will get this treatment, and we'll slowly rip our society apart.

Hopefully the next one will be better.
Right. Whoever uses the term "serverless" without irony can't be trusted with any decision about security, privacy or performance.

It's the current "web scale".
They certainly can, but instead they're purposefully making it impossible to get specific board components so that a single chip defect/failure becomes an $800 paper weight https://youtu.be/gmRd9IVE6dc at 8:30 Louis explains that newer MacBooks, one of the most common issues is unfixable due to isl9240 being unsourceable.
That's the problem. I've tried to get rep but it's hard. I have a lot to contribute but no way to do so.
The greatest April fool prank of all time was the release of GMail. I remember seeing it and being blown away by how much was on offer, then I saw the date, had a slight chuckle, and carried on with my day. I was incredibly shook when it still existed the next day, and the day after that. It wasn't long until I was scouring forums trying to get an invite code.
> I could have learned what I did in a much shorter time.

I'm sure this does apply to almost everyone - given a specific curriculum and removing constraints people could learn things faster.

But that doesn't mean that without the constraints you could come up with the same curriculum and still learn things you're not forced to learn immediately.
Morals, ethics, come from habit. See Aristotle.
I think you're missing the point she's trying to make. She's saying that these types of bans have negative unintended consequences for the poorest people. These consequences get brushed aside "because we can just do X to really help them", but X is never actually done to the degree that it offsets the problem. Her mention of HN is that, this would be one of those places of high ideals where you would expect X to be done, but it isn't. So if it's not even done in a place like HN, then what's the chance that it will be done by the general public? And so X gets brushed aside and the negative unintended consequences pile up.
It can be argued that the percentage of the poor who attend university is high considering the percentage of taxes that they actually pay ( compared to those who earn more than them)
There are just too many competing tugs. Something has to give. The problem of plagiarism goes away entirely if you make the course grade consist entirely of the final in-person exam. That doesn't mean you have to give up assigning homework and scoring it, but for mysterious reasons probably related in part to modern students and teachers not wanting to do anything unless forced to by the system colleges have moved away from the "final is everything" model.
It's also not some weird ass tape system that requires you to build your entire workflow to accommodate it and then get surprise bills on retrieval because it wasn't as cheap as you thought.
In econometrics training you learn to use the classical linear model and never even learn the names for the parametric tests. It weirds me out that some people who're math-literate enough to know calculus 101 wouldn't instantly get that to test if two groups you would regress with a dummy, or to test if slopes between groups are different you would regress with an interaction effect. I remember it feeling as natural as water-is-wet by the end of the semester.

This must be what it felt to learn multiplication with Roman numerals.
> VS Code and GoLand are surging in popularity and are now the most popular code editors among survey respondents.

I wish the package situation for Go was better for SublimeText. Currently most of the worthwhile golang packages that add vet, goimports, fmt, etc support are either abandoned or buggy. Margo bailed on using Package Control so it's difficult to install, not to mention buggy.

I've used VSCode for a while but it chokes sometimes and you can't beat the speed, ease, and power of SublimeText.
YangGang is his own PR. It's nothing to do with 8chan. UBI, of course, appeals to alt-right.

Who wouldn't want to get $1000 a month? Would you? of course you do...