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It not unfair when plenty of WebAssembly supporters try to sell it as the ultimate bytecode, without any flaws from all the ones that came into existence since the 60's.

Also it is still catching up to features that those bytecodes already have during the last 20 years.

Those browsers are only shipping MVP 1.0, unless you want to equate Web with Chrome.

Only now are hackers and security researchers actually caring about WebAssembly security, hence the first wave of security papers on USENIX 2020.

I expect those that drove WebAssembly in detriment of what we already had to be eventually surprised.

For what I care, I will just take advantage of it to get back my plugins.
Bill Gates on back to school: Benefits outweigh costs for young children
Honestly, thinking about winning against this virus with non pharmaceutical interventions is not sustainable on the long run. We need pharmacological means: drugs and vaccines.
Australian winter is hardly the same thing as a European or worse US winter.

Sydney's temperature tomorrow is a high of 17, low of 10.

Glasgow's temperature tomorrow is a high of 19, low of 10.
that's more of a frame of reference issue though. in cases like racism/sexism, available profits on average do accrue to the people wielding power for that purpose, whether it's good for profits overall.
Then the solution should not be to expect the federal government to come up with a plan. That's one of the few entities with even more stakeholders than schools.
A lot of apps have A/B testing going on which makes updating this field difficult.
Ha, still have my casio watch calculator from the 80's

Guess I should see if the battery has exploded and if not get it out of there :/
> An untold horror story would be the management & development overhead (and thus cost) associated with it.

How do you expect to manage clusters of COTS hardware and VMs communicating through a VPN and supporting version-controlled blue-green deployments without adding any complexity?
Take a look at these plots: https://c19study.com
I’m a little jealous of the engineers who get to work on this project. It would be so exciting to build something like this from the ground up, improving it constantly. The challenge, scope, and meaning are compelling, no?
But it can be settled in any currency trivially. All you want in a currency is acceptance and value stability, and the infrastructure to support rapid changes in currency polices.

Disclosure: I work in financial services and am familiar with this infrastructure.
> Wouldn't that be simpler with a general bankruptcy? What is gained when a third party, often encumbered with leverage, gets involved?

A bankruptcy is getting a third party (a court) involved to redistribute ownership or sell off assets and redistribute the proceeds and to decide how the company will be run while all of that is happening.

That is a good deal more complicated than simply selling the company to someone who wants to run it differently.
East Asia.
Most free and ISP based usenet feeds had a lot of missing posts, especially since they allowed older posts to expire. Even the commercial usenet providers only started their archives about 12 years ago.
> Apple too, they bundled their Maps application with every iPhone sold which you couldn't even uninstall for a long time.

And even now, having done so, clicking on an address to copy it will take you to a page telling you to reinstall maps to see it...
The latter. I'm having trouble finding an unbiased benchmark right now, but Safari is quite a bit less of a battery hog than either Chrome or Firefox.
Basically neglect and boredom (I say this not an an accusatory way). They have a huge gusher of cash that comes in pretty much regardless of what they do, so there is no penalty if their focus slips. You see this in other companies with this “problem” like Valve. This also happens with monopolies— note that standard oil made more money after being broken up than before that happened.

In google’s case you can see this boredom on Android, on the number of products announced and casually killed (they might be excellent standalone products but can’t move the needle on earnings for the benefit of Wall Street so why bother?).

Contrast this to early Intel in the Grove era: they were on top of the world with the memory business so they pivoted to something else. Google has had the same two products for almost 20 years. The later Intel has been more like that.

Another contrast: they don’t know what to do about the advertising downturn, so are cutting back on hiring and such, while FB is trying to double down.
You can’t legally buy new Russian-made gun in U.S. due to sanctions.
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“Racism” is one of the most loaded concepts, but it’s a fact that even by this incredibly loaded definition the system is more racist than any other system in all of human history.

But it isn’t racist in the way that you expect it to be. It isn’t racist at the level of the intersection of the system and the “street”.

The problem that you think is the problem, isn’t. The real problem is much more insidious. And if you attempt to solve the problem that you think is the problem you will do nothing but worsen the problem, just as all previous interventions.

It is what it is.
Nitpick; ex-military has a negative connotation to some; as in, implying they got there by way of dishonourable discharge, etc.

In my experience, most such people prefer the term former military.
If you think about it, the adult-media field is scalable by design
No, no, no. These groups and other Usenet groups archives must be preserved. They're our history.
Thanks. We used blender cycles to sculpt the atom. Our goal is to visualize the math of electromagnetism and imagine how such invisible action at a distance can occur.
Controversial question: Why should we preserve code that no one uses anymore? Why should we not allow some information to be simply lost?
Maybe now the bacteria revived from 40Mya amber are believable.
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"He who controls the present controls the past. He who controls the past controls the future" - Orwell, "1984"
As someone formerly in that space I don't think so, assuming by "traders" you mean the prop firms who actually need the speed advantage. You can always arrange for the logging to happen outside the critical path, which is a tiny minority of the code you run. And you will do that if its necessary to gain a fraction of a microsecond on a competitive trade. Even if it's just being able to run a build with logging off for special cases.

For a looser definition of "traders" that includes dark pool operators and exchanges, then sure. Writing logs was definitely the bottleneck at one major European exchange for some years. They may not be able to turn off logging for regulatory reasons, but they also don't care so much about the microseconds. In this case they could definitely have improved performance with horizontal scaling (have each computer handle fewer stock symbols) but didn't consider that economically justified.
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Maybe it's semantics (I haven't read your link yet) but shame isn't similar to shyness, modesty or blushing to me. The later 3 are things I think are good things. Shame to me (maybe my definition isn't correct) is equivalent to punishing one's self for a mistake, usually over a long period of time, and usually in an overly dramatic way (like the OP's article). It happened when he was a kid just trying to do honest work, he felt wrong about it, something terrible happened that wasn't his fault... so as harsh as it is, I still stand by "get over it."

I also said by the way "you have a good moral fabric" which goes along with that statement. If someone is say, a rapist, then I suppose shame is a great emotion to have, because they're upset that they lack what other people have, which is a working control of emotion and a sound mind. For most people (who are good people), I feel like shame is something that does nothing but inhibit life.
In the abstract, growth means "more." Its good to ask "more what?" but the "what" depends on your business/market. You should be able to ask your founders what their growth metrics are and what they look like.

If your startup is growing, it means that you as an employee will have more work to do, problems to solve, bugs to fix, features to ship, employees to help onboard, meetings to schedule, etc.

When that starts to stagnate (no new hires, no new sales, no new bug reports or feature requests, nothing new to discuss with colleagues, etc) that implies a lack of growth.
Seems more likely to me that the people that were previously going to the gym decided to buy their own equipment. There's also something to be said about the quantity of exercise equipment inventory available at any given time.
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The battery life when idle is shown here to be 5 or 6 hours.

Any other consumer-grade phone gets something like 24-36 hours by sleeping a lot (or something).

Should I expect the Librem 5 developers to be able to achieve the same thing before they ship Evergreen?
I mean this:

https://imgur.com/a/aYutjsO

Having to see mentions of Nazi camps on my home page or seeing a notification for Facebook containers although I don't use Facebook. All that bloat being enabled by default is troublesome and goes against very principles Mozilla advocates.
Define "full support"? Do you mean a vigorous nod, or arms and air support?

I approved of that coup attempt. Does that responsibility for the coup can be laid at my feet?
Again, they would also call you toxic for the inverse reasons.

Ie “if they don’t want to work hard and build a career, so be it. Don’t drag down the rest of us” etc.

Two sides to the story is what I’m getting at.
Ask HN: When someone makes bad remarks on your project, how do you go about it?
Should you be defensive for your current project?

Accepting seems like correct thing to do, since there are always things to improve in code base or the original design assumptions may not be true anymore etc.

However, practically I see that it is taken as admission of incorrectness and then it quickly starts to pile up. The code becomes a blame arena for all future problems too.

What is the best way to handle the situation?
> The usenet archives should really be made public

Given the nature of Usenet, they were if anyone wanted them.
Apple is a poor choice, because they consider keeping their roadmap under wraps an not only a competitive advantage, but a core part of their company ethos.
> If we can't say that the WHO dropped the ball with their mask recommendations

You seem certain of this.

Please post a link to the high quality evidence that you think WHO should have used to recommend mask wearing in the general public.

This should be either a meta-analysis or RCT that shows a clear benefit.

We have plenty of RCTs of masks to prevent spread of respiratory disease.

It should be very easy to find one -- you're so certain you must have already read the research, and if the effect is so clear it'd be obvious to people doing the research.
Reading https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2017/04/deepest-life..., scientists think temperatures above 250F (120 °C) aren’t compatible with life as we know it (carbon-based, using water), and, because of that, there isn’t life below 6 miles down.

Reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanopyrus, about a microbe that “can survive and reproduce at 122 °C”, that limit may be based on observation, rather than first principles. Regardless, I would take it with a grain of salt.
It's hard to imagine some country wouldn't have pulled it off. The physics were beginning to be understood (and it's worth remembering: until the first test detonations, the actual power of the weapons was not well understood. Granted, once it was understood, the country that developed them did choose to deploy them on a civilian populace...).
Yes, of course, I understand that. But in the middle of a recession that becomes Sophie's choice: do you raise rates to curb inflation while killing the chance of a recovery?
> But from talking with them, it seems like their focus is on retirement - hopefully in their 50's. That's their grand plan, because that's when they'll start "living".

It goes much deeper than that. The notion that work could not possibly be "living" is much more popular in Europe too. With employment so over-regulated and entrepreneurship discouraged it's easy to see why people treat "work" in a very transactional way.

For most people there just isn't a lot of obvious upside waiting for them if they work extra hard. Salaries are extremely compressed compared to the US. The only way to make real money[0] in Europe is by running a business but that's discouraged too.

Even education - there's no Ivy League of Europe, there's no Stanford. There are some schools that may be considered good, but elite - not really.

[0] well I guess anywhere, but there are many diverse career paths in the US that will reliably get you to a few hundred k. In Europe not so much.
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Australia is more than just Sydney, and the Southern Hemisphere has more than just Australia.

It's plenty chilly in southern Chile.
Is there concrete evidence of that or is that just the only thing that you think can explain it?

I can't dismiss that possibility, but I tend to think it's because, even though I don't see the appeal, with regular people, Pinterest is really popular and liked. In other words, the ranking seems wrong to me, but I think it might be because I am far from being a typical user.

A similar phenomenon happens with song lyrics on (regular) Google web search. If I search for "sting englishman in new york lyrics", what I want is the official lyrics from Sting's official web site (https://www.sting.com/discography/lyrics/128). Instead, I get pages of popular sites like genius.com, azlyrics.com, lyrics.com, metrolyrics.com, etc. I try to avoid these sites because their lyrics are often inaccurate and wrong (which defeats the purpose of looking up a line I'm not sure if I heard right), so the artist's official site or a fan site is vastly preferable. (I also want to support the artist. Maybe while I'm there I'll check for tour dates or merchandise.)

But I've mentioned this preference to some people before, and they surprised me by saying they like and prefer the big, well-known lyrics sites. To me, these are lowest common denominator junk bordering on spam, but to them it's what they are looking for. Point being, apparently most users aren't as particular about it as me and just want to go to familiar sites. Google may be ranking popular sites higher because that's what people actually want.
Indeed, that's the point. You can't predict what's going to be the big winner of the next 20 years, but you can predict that some brands are going to be fairly safe and will at least not wipe you out without notice.

Sure you could have gone all-in on Amazon at IPO (ooh an online book cd sales company, with MP3s on the horizon), but you could easilly have gone all-in on Pets.com.

You could have invested in yahoo, after all that was the place that ran the web in the 90s - if you weren't on yahoo you didn't have a business. You could have piled into things like friends reunited, myspace, napster, all of which were just as likely to succeed as facebook, yahoo, or apple music.

Even dying companies like Blockbuster and Kodak took far longer to wipe out shareholder value than some new flash-in-the-pan companies.
Some things I'm curious about are not addressed in the article.

First, how does the pay compare to industry standard?

Second, for people that have moved out of the industry how did it impact your future opportunities?

I feel like it would be more difficult to find new employment outside the industry due to the negative stigma attached.
You know reliability is bad when the KTM is an upgrade! (Former 390 owner who had to warranty their bike...)

Even if you stay in cruisers- Honda, Kawasaki, Yamaha and Indian quality compared to Harley is insane. It's as if the bikes were made in a different century.
It's both. MAD gave breathing room for a global supply chain unhindered by another continent-consuming transnational conflict.
Not mine. I need anki, authy, a calculator, a good podcast app, an audiobook app, a VPN, security/privacy, and then just a really long battery life.

An aside: if apple would stop making the new iOS updates so draining on older phones it would help - the last iOS update took my battery from 2.5 days without a charge to 1.7 days “overnight” - imagine what this did to people who didn’t buy the silly oversized model with the lower screeen resolution? It’s basically a malware attack on their users to force them to update
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Pretty sure my Casio calculator watch has a light since I remember using it. If I could just remember where I stashed it...
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Since when is jQuery, PHP and MySQL "legacy?"

Half the web runs on that stack.
It's worth noting also around this same time they changed the front page of the site from the list of current questions to a "welcome" page that attempts to direct you towards purchasing one of their enterprise products. This is of no use to the vast majority of users who go to the site.

Between that and their CEO retiring, it's clear that the site is moving to a new way of working, and it's one that isn't beneficial to their actual users. If they're having trouble making money the way they previously did, then I guess they have to try something new, but it sure is sad to see this happen.
The Pinephone can do that actually:

https://wiki.mobian-project.org/doku.php?id=pinephone

How to set up a wifi HotSpot is here:
https://wiki.mobian-project.org/doku.php?id=tweaks

Although note, as of now, neither the Pinephone nor the Librem 5 can do MMS (they both share ModemManager and it doesn't have MMS functionality)
We chose to roll our own SSR, in an otherwise "normal" react + apollo app. This meant that, if we ran into bugs, that we weren't reliant on someone else to update an ecosystem to get unblocked.

It's worked out very well for us.
I see this with traveling. I love traveling and 100% plan on using some of the money I've gotten from tech to travel. But many of my classmates have an attitude of "later". They make decent salaries, they have the time and freedom. But they don't do anything cool with it! I get living within your means and being frugal but damn if you're making six figures you can afford a trip or two.
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Redox is being worked on continuously. They just added support for gdb.
That’s a really good point, and I agree, but any alloy used for reactor components is going to have to deal with embrittlement one way or another. At the end of the day this is just another potential tool in the alloy design toolbox, and it might or might not turn out to be useful for mitigating corrosion in reactor materials
No they've just secured their kingdom enough that they can do whatever they want.
Right, you mean the content Mozilla shoves into new tab. I disabled this the first time I saw it. Not going down in the browser I use. Should it ever be impossible to disable, I'll switch browser in a blink.
Maybe I misunderstood. By "CPU design", I think of architecture, somewhat separate from process node. If Intel were to put its current design on a node equivalent to AMD, where would they stand? This is why I'm wondering how it's possible to know if the AMD design is better.
Well I think it’s ok in general for some information to be lost, but I think a lot of HN users value this specific information.
Maybe "I'd rather phrase that..." or "More precisely..."

In general, I think it makes sense to avoid implying that the other person is wrong when you've decided to try addressing in a strict logical way something that was uttered as conversational English.
This is a bland PR oriented statement. I was roughly expecting this level of details from the speaker.

The one statement feels rather bland: "those advances have been denied to the mass market"

What does this mean?

It was not denied, they were just too complex for mass market. People are happy to pay AWS so that they can worry not the machines, and write JS code from day one.
It was very regional in Yugoslavia. For example, eastern Slovenia was behind Zagreb and some coastal areas of Croatia. It was behind cities like Novi Sad, Belgrade in Serbia and many others. Slovenia as a whole was of course better developed partly due to commerce/proximity with Italy and Austria.
Maybe to start there could be mandatory disclosure of all donations/vacations/other lobbying tactics that each senator is engaged in, correlated with their track record of voting and publicly disclosed and actively monitored.

I agree it's a hard problem, but I think with a big enough pool of information everyone could get a letter/email saying that politician x cost you y amount this year by voting this way. I know I would be compelled to make some changes.
> Beginner runners/bikers/skateboarders/whatever will not really feel the difference between equipment that cost $100 and $1,000

As a general rule I disagree. If beginners don't feel the difference, that's because they only used the $100 equipment, they would be better off with the $1000 one.

I first noticed that with skis. I am not a great skier by any mean, but just for kicks I tried renting the best equipment I could find and wow, what a difference it made. Everything was so much more precise. Obviously, I made many mistakes, but the outcome became clearer and more repeatable. I knew how I was wrong and it helped me improve. Poor quality equipment muddy things up, so it might feel like it is more forgiving (more on that later) but in reality, its just blends its own shortcoming with yours so you never know what went wrong, especially if you are a beginner and can't trust your own skills.

There are good reasons for not buying expensive equipment right away. The biggest one is simply that if you don't know if it is the right thing for you, you may spend a lot of money for nothing, that's why some people recommend renting first. The other is that high-end stuff tend to be less forgiving, because they are marketed to experts. It is not that beginners won't enjoy that level of quality, but for the previous reason, there isn't a market for it.
Well part of that has to do with a significant amount of the value add of a dense area like a city is doing things that involve lots of people, especially people who are somewhat strangers. This isn't exactly possible when there's a plague.

That doesn't make those activities consumerist though.
On my street in SF that has a dead end, cars keep coming up looking for parking and on weekends they usually find nothing.
But they get stuck turning around and cause a mess.

Could I use Density to count cars and display number of empty spots at the entrance of my street?
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Safari has been frustratingly aggressive for me. I was working with a fairly heavy Google Spreadsheet and Safari would need to refresh/reload every time it lost focus.

Between Chrome, Firefox, Safari and their plugins it's a dance to get the desired behavior and efficiency. Lazy loading of pages (when you have multiple tabs and close/reopen) can either be really efficient (because they don't even load the page) or annoying (if you don't have Internet or they change/remove the page when you go back to read it).