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> H&M's noticeable drop in clothing quality over the last decade

I have observed similar quality decrease with H&M, GAP and other brands. Technically (chem.eng.), it would make sense - but one has to look into the actual process in order to get clear insight.
I agree with you on keeping the main thread free. What are your thoughts on WASM via workers?
The are definitely merits: fingerprinting protection, containers, less memory usage, soon a state-of-the-art parallel rendering engine (Webrender), soon-to-be better adblockers, etc. More novel things will trickle down from Servo in the future.

It's unclear to me Chromium is still significantly faster in any meaningful way. They certainly feel roughly the same.
Ask HN: What to do with $5000 in cash in 2019
Advice, Hacks, Experience from you is welcome
I often surprise myself - I see commits that are 4 years old that I could have sworn I implemented just a few months ago
As a UI developer i want to move scrolling and style updates out of main thread. Every WebWorker tutorial is taking about how a “computationally heavy task” can go out of main thread. But rarely anyone does computation in the client.

I would say Animation Worklets are the workers that will make an impact on delivering multithreaded UIs in web.

https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5762982487261184
Going into this paper, i expected they would be correcting for barrel distortion. I was disappointed to read that they instead:

>we formulate an optimization problem to create a content-aware warping mesh which locally adapts to the stereographic projection on facial regions, and seamlessly evolves to the perspective projection over the background.

Reminds me of this person who wrote a youtube tutorial with the factually incorrect title "Manually correct perspective in Photoshop". He did not correct the (already correct) perspective, but rather selectively distorted parts of scenery photographs so bridges looked "vertical". In fact, he was making those parts of the image no longer conform to the mathematical photo projection. Instead of picking a better-suited image projection, that video and this paper selectively fudge parts of the image to use a different projection.

https://youtu.be/BocAGkS8yRQ
All these CFO,CTO,CEO,CMO and etc. titles make me laugh when it comes to small companies. These titles make sense when we talk about the likes of Google,MS, Facebook. If it's a shop of 10 people, you are not a CTO,you are a tech lead at best with a few less experienced developers.The 2 co-owners of the business I work for call themselves joint CEOs, with only one line of management separating them from the lowest level employees.I could call myself Vice President or COO or something like this but that'd be idiotic knowing that I only manage a team of 10 people.This obsession and vanity with titles is complete nonsense.
I think the lesson is that execution (and marketing) are everything. Unreal is a quake rip. Fortnite is a pubg rip. But they executed extremely well. So well that they feel fresh and not like a rip.
But that’s the concept of “influencers” — not to sell things directly, but to influence an audience for when they actually do buy something. That is what most advertising aims to do — not to make people get up and go buy the thing immediately.
>And even when I read fiction, I like to exercise my visual memory and try to imagine every last detail while I read at a leisurely pace.

You just made me realize that people can and do read fiction without visualizing the majority of things that happen in a story. That suddenly explains so much as to how some people read fiction so quickly.
I agree. I mean if we're guessing at possible dangers, it seems like there are several possible angles that might be tempting to try:

- It's meant to be a stealthy plane, how about tweaking the board to cause a nice and noisy signal leak in certain circumstances?

- find a way of causing the board to fail under suitable circumstances.

- Probably less plausible, if they can figure out what data is passing through the board, then there is potential to engineer side-channels in the hope that they can achieve another compromise that can leverage it. Maybe they never get the chance to take advantage, maybe they do. Or if e.g. they can find an input that an adversary can potentially influence by how they engage with the plane, use that to trigger failure as above.

I'm assuming they're properly inspected and tested on receipt, but wires on circuit boards can interfere with each other in messy ways if you exceed tolerances even a little bit. I recall an amusing case some years back where someone used genetic algorithms to lay out features on an FPGA and got a very good solution that was totally un-reproducible: it turned out their GA had optimized to take advantage of quirks of that one specific FPGA that didn't work on other FPGA's of the same model, by combining things in ways it hadn't been designed for. It seems it's very much possible to design chips that superficially looks like it should act one way but where it acts differently in certainly circumstances.

Doing so in a way that's exploitable without being caught out is probably much harder, but I share your skepticism.
Cloudflare Workers is so-named because it uses the same API as Service Workers, which are one kind of Web Worker. That said, Cloudflare Workers currently implements only a subset of the APIs that are normally available in the browser, though missing APIs are being added all the time.

So, your understanding is basically correct.

(I'm the tech lead for Cloudflare Workers.)
We do something similar with HashiCorp Vault. People authenticate to Vault (backed by Active Directory) and if they have the proper permissions (based on AD group) they can ask Vault to issue an SSH certificate for a particular account on a specific server. This is working well; we no longer have accounts for everyone who needs access on every box and giving or removing access is as easy as changing group membership in AD.

https://www.vaultproject.io/docs/secrets/ssh/signed-ssh-cert...
Quite, the idea that mathematical modelling of language will lead to general AI is absurd. The simplest way to defeat chatbots and mathematical language generation models is to teach them something new, like a game or other rules based system and ask them questions about it and then play it. They fall flat on their face immediately because they have no ability to build, interrogate and adapt models of systems.

The authors’ credence of Searle’s Chinese Room argument is telling. The Chinese Room is misdirection. We are invited to consider an agent in a room manipulating symbols on cards and asked could such a system be considered conscious. In fact there might need to be trillions of these agents in rooms covering an area many orders of magnitude larger than the Earth, manipulating millions of trillions of symbols every millisecond. Asking if a system like that could be conscious is a whole different question.

“Here however Turing commits the fallacy of petitio principii, since he presupposes an equivalence between dialogue-ability (as established on the basis of his criterion) and possession of consciousness, which is precisely what his argument is setting out to prove.”

Sigh, no. Dialogue ability isnt claimed to be _equivalent_ to possession of consciousness, that’s putting the cart before the horse. It’s a possible product of consciousness. You could have a conscious system incapable of sensible dialogue, but the point of the test is you can’t have sensible dialogue without consciousness. That’s a claim and it’s arguable, sure, but dialogue ability doesn’t lead to consciousness. That’s daft. They and Searle look at this from entirely the wrong direction.
>You have two matrices, with allocated memory A and B, that you want to multiply and store to allocated memory C, as efficiently as possible

If matrices are small, 1 core would be more efficient. If matrices are big, GPU would be more efficient.
Given that aesthetic experience is something the automotive industry actually prioritises, I supect the security problems with these things is going to be much worse than the usability.
A lot of ink spilled over this. I expected schadenfreude but really this is just a high schooler making her first tentative baby steps into selling stuff and unsurprisingly failing. My story would've been the same back in the day. A Telemarketing Powerhouse Who Called 2,000 Homes Couldn't Sell 4 Magazine Subscriptions. Difference was, I just quietly went back to college, while she has professional marketers analyzing her every move in Business Insider. I think maybe fuck the internet? Just not for the same reason I thought.
Not claiming that it is.

Though it will get more publicity and wider exposure than most ICOs usually do, I'm sure.
I've heard that the worst code is the 2nd version. You try to fix everything from the 1st version (real or perceived) and over correct as a result.
Smart cards with a TLS client cert auth?

Estonia does it, works great for logging in if the service supports it.
Canada will test quantum tech that protects space communications
WoW! Finally, my second programming language.
I'm an early adopter of 8chan. I don't participate in the more racist or extreme boards on 8chan.

I want to argue that there is value in 8chan. For example during the egyptian protests, one of the most popular boards was devoted to egyptian content. I don't know what they were talking about because it was in Arabic but I'm glad that the egyptian people had that forum.

Right now one of the top 50 boards is HKpol. It deals with the protests in hong kong and he content is mostly written in chinese.

Yes we can criticize anonymous free speech forums for their misuse, and I can certainly see how they might be misused. But I think forums for anonymous free speech can also provide a lot of benefit, particularly for people living in parts of the world where they might face persecution for wanting basic freedoms.
wirecutter is not at all reliable anymore. Nearly all their picks get massive complaints in the comments and do not stand up to fakespot/reviewmeta. I know comments are not really a reliable indicator, people will always complain, but I used the site from the start and there has been a distinct shift once they were bought out.
Yes, that’s exactly what AnimationWorklet is for.

That being said, I think even smaller-scale things like state management and hitting APIs should be moved to workers. It all increases resilience and buys headroom for low-end phones.
I know people that committed crimes in the 60s-70s-80s and were convicted but no one would ever know because the record keeping at the time was temporal.

My one felony from 12 years ago for smoking pot in public has cost me more money/jobs/promotions/relationships from Google searches and background checks than anything imaginable [in my opinion].

I believe that many criminals simply go back to crime since they're unhireable now that information is at everyone's fingertips.

Debt to society is never paid anymore. We have the Chinese "social credit system" in the U.S.; it's simply not announced the way theirs is.
Spaced repitition is orthogonal to quizzing yourself.
One app being 5MB larger is negligible. 50 apps being 5MB larger isn't a huge problem but it is significant. Modern phones have gigabytes of storage but not many gigabytes.

I also didn't see that the difference is just 5MB. Most apps are in the double or even triple digits.

In addition, caring about anything being 3 times larger than necessary stikes me as the right mindset. Individual items may insignificant but they add up. It's certainly better than the electron-ic opposite.
> In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and which coincided point for point with it. The following Generations, who were not so fond of the Study of Cartography as their Forebears had been, saw that that vast map was Useless, and not without some Pitilessness was it, that they delivered it up to the Inclemencies of Sun and Winters. In the Deserts of the West, still today, there are Tattered Ruins of that Map, inhabited by Animals and Beggars; in all the Land there is no other Relic of the Disciplines of Geography.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Exactitude_in_Science
The problem still exists. It's less so specific to floating point numbers and more so a product of the limited number of states any data type can hold. Integers and floating point numbers are both still 64 bit on most modern computers, unless you are using big-int structures which are much more computationally intensive.
That is just not true. There’s always the option of refactoring, make the necessary changes and manually test the system. Even though I’m a big fan of automated testing (not only unit tests), most codebases don’t have complete test coverage, but we still refactor and change the systems.
From the accusations of China compromising motherboards a few months ago, the exploits are: Incorporating transmitters that look like surface mount components. Imagine putting a small transmitter into the design on a signal trace where a resistor or capacitor normally would go and then setting up a receiver just outside a base to catch the signal. It could record all kinds of things and transmit it a short distance, weapons loadout, fuel amount, when the aircraft leaves the base, etc. The second is that some components can be squished between PCB layers such that the only way to detect them is through xray inspection.

And for you security deniers that say nothing like this ever happens, https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/photos-of-an-nsa...
Unions generally exist to make sure their members get a living wage and healthcare, not to make them rich.
Sure, but how of what is this reference apropos?
Agreed. I am quite annoyed that no browser has shipped modules in workers. There is little incentive as Workers are sorely underused.

Since I mostly use rollup, I ended up writing a plugin[1] that allows you to pretend that modules are in workers. It compiles down to AMD under the hood and uses a very minimalistic worker.

[1]: https://github.com/surma/rollup-plugin-loadz0r
I’d imagine more of an implied consent angle. In any event the truly paranoid can just put a small notice on the door.
Can someone explain why the ES standard doesn't have something like this:

new Worker(function(params) {
... compute heavy stuff here ...
});
It's possible to build these things in parallel, so "each one takes 10 years to build" doesn't mean you can't still bring one reactor online each year.

Either way, new reactor construction is not currently a significant source of new generation capacity in the US, and so I think it counts as "basically stopped".
Live streaming of sports rolled out in South Africa
The Federated Networks Forum for federated web collaboration discussion
Complexity of Python Operations
They forked Webkit which they named Blink
We are using loads of Wasm in Workers in https://squoosh.app

Since Wasm is synchronous, I’d say it should almost always be run in workers except if the module needs access to some main-thread-only API.
Windows subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2) is available for insiders users
> If you reread the comment you are responding to, it says raw sensory input is the only thing that is not wrong, not that it is wrong.

My view is that raw sensory input is just information, so it's not wrong, and so we are in agreement there. Further, I am saying that knowledge can be derived from that sensory input, which is where we disagree.

I see what you are saying, I failed to clearly distinguish these two cases when I used the term "sensory information."

> We don't even know that there is a stick

Yes we do. But to "know that there is a stick" is subject to certain caveats. It's not an absolute, like being omniscient. For example, if something is a stick, it's still a stick, even if we actually live in the Matrix, or in the dream of an alien being. Because to be a stick is just a mental classification (i.e., concept) that we have created for a certain kind of thing evidenced to us by our sense data and by the use of reason.

> is a useful, but still wrong, model

A model can be correct as long as it doesn't overstate its own power of generalization. There is a sibling discussion going that covers the fact that Newton's Laws are correct as long as they are understood to describe phenomena (i.e. evidence) actually observed by Newton, and then only to a certain level of fidelity; but not "correct" if you hold them to the standard of explaining everything.

> Faith, where it concerns the material universe at all, is still a method of selecting models subject to the “all models are wrong, some are useful” rule,

Faith doesn't select a model. A model is based on evidence of the senses. Faith dispenses with models entirely and just makes stuff up out of whole cloth. I see your point there, I just think you're using the word "model" too loosely and in a way that gives faith too much credit.
Because Facebook haven't demonstrated any integrity whatsoever in all of their history as a company.
Looks like the store is temporarily down:

https://www.erashop.us/

My guess is that not enough build-up, or buzz was created, and the initial attempt to sell was forced and random. It's an old tactic you see various startups doing: creating a countdown landing page where the 'mystery' of the product gets people talking.
I looked at her account on Instagram.First of all I'm surprised she's got so many followers,as there's nothing even remotely interesting in her posts. There's no story I'd follow-in fact there's nothing at all. So no surprise T-Shirt business was a flop.
The Magic of Responsibility
> A "chaining of hashes of the previous blocks" has other uses than preventing double spending of currency.

So publish a git repository then. Still no blockchain needed.
There was an article here recently about fatty acids in soil that reduce anxiety. Very interesting.

I am going all in on eating strawberries straight from the garden this year. Hasn't hurt in the past, & I know we're not using manure, so I figure it's good. Would love to see some research on this. Carrots from the yard with just a good scrub to get sand off: a microbiotic delight, or what?
Worrying about scalability before you need it is a good way to ensure that you won't.
The Pareto principle says that reducing CO2 by 80% is doable, but reducing it by 100% will probably destroy us. How much CO2 do you think will be released if we destroy every outdated building and build a new energy efficient one in its place? What’s the payoff time? What’s the cost? The answer I see and hear is often “I don’t care. World is ending. Etc”. This is why I said it strikes me as unserious. I wouldn’t let an intern at my work make such a sloppy suggestion, let alone a politician.

And our climate predictions are just that, predictions. And they can definitely change[1] when you’re talking about geological time, though we often accept them as some sort of gospel.

1. https://www.dailywire.com/news/48287/national-parks-toss-sig...
True, but initially decoupling the business logic from the specifics of data retrieval would allow you to write an abstraction layer when you need to switch stores rather than having to rewrite the entire thing.
The problem is mostly in that all these functions are closures, and scope can’t easily be transferred.

Domenic and I have been working on a proposal[1] called Blöcks to introduce transferable functions to JavaScript.

In the meantime, I wrote Clooney[2] ontop of Comlink[3] that gives you almost that.

[1]: https://github.com/domenic/proposal-blocks

[2]: https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/clooney

[3]: https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/comlink
One reason is that a code-coverage checker will tell you whether you're testing both cases.
Online transactions have an equivalent of the EMV liability shift called 3D Secure which any decent merchant acquirer should offer as an option.

In addition, if your online merchant acquirer starts asking about EMV details I’d be concerned about whether they know what they’re talking about.
It's also a massive centralization of power. There have been numerous incidents in recent years, where someone became the subject of a viral Internet controversy, and their gmail account was mysteriously deleted with no explanation, only to be restored a day later, mysteriously with no explanation. Why wouldn't similar abuses occur with such an authentication system?
This is the absolute best thing to do if you sell high ticket items or subscriptions.
African elephant populations are very healthy, just barely qualifying for IUCN "vulnerable" status. They're not a significant conservation risk, but they are a big money-maker for Western wildlife charities and African governments. The genus has more than enough protected habitat and more than enough monitoring.

The Borneo, Indian and Sri Lankan elephants are all endangered, while the Sumatran elephant is critically endangered. The Sumatran elephant is overwhelmingly not being poached for ivory, but being killed due to conflict with agriculture and human settlement; similar problems affect the rest of the Asian elephant population. Only a small proportion of conservation efforts are directed towards this critical but extremely difficult issue - how do you protect elephants from people, while also protecting people from elephants?
>Because in response to a pre-planned demonstration from a group

Has anyone actually checked if extinction rebellion actually has any plans to fly drones round Heathrow? Currently we are taking a very vaguely worded article from the Economist at face value. Not to cast aspersions, but the Economist does talk a lot of bollocks sometimes.
As a general rule you shouldn't rewrite everything from scratch. This does not mean that you shouldn't, on occasion, rewrite some parts of your system. Rewrites are expensive. On the other hand some code you think is bad really is bad, and it will be a net win to rewrite it.

To make a call like this, you really do need a pretty good understanding of your codebase, your business, your testing exposure, the capabilities of your team, and probably some other stuff as well. In reality, your understanding is never going to be as good as you really need it. This doesn't mean you should never rewrite any portion of your codebase, it just means that you really need to reduce the scope a lot to reduce the risk to a manageable amount.
Maybe there once was a breakpoint at the return false, or an assert, and it was just left like this in case the breakpoint is needed again.
Kerberos started out with symmetric keys. It's been a long time since I followed things, so that might have changed. Public keys would greatly simplify key distribution, of course.
You can use address verification and/or 3DS to reduce fraud chargebacks for online transactions. If you use 3DS then the bank will assume liability for fraud.
I create free content(its intellectual), I hope your type appreciates my labor.

Although, I do agree, cute pictures are easy to produce.
I think the problem with this is the same problem with email marketing. It doesn't mean that marketing on Instagram doesn't work.

I know people who have thousands of subscribers and can't sell $1000 of stuff and then there are people with 1000 subscribers that can sell $50k worth with a single email.

It all comes down to the relationship with your list (I guess in this case your followers). If your list trusts you and trust is easy to gain by giving a lot of value + authority, they will buy from you. Think if your best friend tell you to get "X" and he is an expert too then chances are you will try "X" even if doesn't make sense at the moment. On the other hand if a random stranger tells you to do it, you will need a lot of convincing and still you'll be looking for ulterior motives before making that purchase.