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> Java was the original "write once, run anywhere" language

That crown properly belongs to the UCSD P-System, which was the Java of the 1980's. It was the same idea as Java - compilation to a bytecode which an interpreter ran. It failed because the interpreter performance penalty was too high.

Java also started out as an interpreter, which made it too slow. Steve Russell of Symantec invented a JIT for it, and like the lumbering Allison-engined P-51 getting a supercharged Merlin, it brought Java to life.
Stay in great shape and health. No youngling is ageist against a fit grandpa, because most of them can't get fit in their age, much less when they get older.
I live in the northeast - even if I get promoted it’s unlikely I’ll break 200k. Down payment for a house around here is like 150k or more :/
I was at Adobe 25 years ago. And there were people running around saying "We need to re-write everything in Java! This way we can write it once, and it will run on Sun, Mac, Windows, SGI, everwhere!"

Funny how that never worked out. Even the few Java desktop apps that don't look like 30 year old SunOS apps (IntellIJ is probably the best-looking Java app), have to have substantially different versions for each platform.

A few people in the research groups tried re-writing a few apps in Java, like Acrobat Viewer, but nothing ever came of it.
Not the GP, so not sure what he was specifically talking about, but wool is known for retaining its insulative value even when wet.

Yes, you're wet, but you're still warm.

Many outdoorsmen prefer this to the uncertainty of being able to keep their gear dry.
I can reproducibly deadlock my workplace coffee machine.

You press the coffee type and immediately hit the "clean" button. Then the machine is dead with no recourse other than unplug. Try that trick on a Makineta.
I use a Garmin Forerunner 945 with Garmin Connect. Works pretty good. For me the “analytics” part of Garmin Connect is better then Apple Activities (switched from Apple Watch 1 year ago).
If you insist on inserting trollbait in a polite and calm discussion, well might I suggest that Americans, at the very least, owe us Thanks for the billions of dollars in taxes Indian Americans pay as the wealthiest ethnic group in the country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_U...
An ICIJ investigation reveals role of banks in industrial-scale money laundering
And based on Chromium.
Assange Hearing Day 13
> TC2 is based on the 2017 TF2 source code leak ...

Has Valve ever made a statement on this? Sounds like a terrible idea to me / this could be taken down on a whim by Valve.
Most of the web features beyond html 1.0 were 'proprietary' platform specific features developed internally at Netscape and rolled out with no consensus or standardization. Brandon Eich though something was a cool idea so he shipped it, end of story. I wish Firefox and Safari would start solving problems again and let other vendors decide wether or not to adopt their solution or develop their own. As it stands, google's vision is that all webpages are multi-thousand line programs that require full asynchronous network and local storage access just to display a news article. Requiring js for simply getting the user agent string (and increasingly everything else) is how they keep one step ahead of efforts to stop fingerprinting tracking and targeting.
This is what management companies are for.
I’m really referring to the children of Googler parents.
Yes. A senior Intel exec told me around the time multicore was coming in something to the effect of "Of course we knew we had to switch from frequency to multicore but Microsoft was terrified of the software implications of moving away from pure instruction level parallelism."

This was of course somewhat self-serving given all the criticism Intel caught for being slow to adopt multicore. But there were certainly concerns about software support at the time, especially on the desktop.

(In the end, it ended up not being as big a problem as some were fearing for various reasons. But it was a real fear at the time.)
If you take a glance at the linked document, as I just did, it appears to cover the hardware graphics pipeline which is more than just a Cg programming language reference. Cg as a language is more or less the same as any other high level shader language of the same era.
> My guess is this time HSBC will lose their banking license

I'll take the other side of that bet.
Most of those companies are not writing one-thread-per-request servers, they write non-blocking / async IO Java.
The Cato Institute is an American libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C. It was founded as the Charles Koch Foundation in 1974 by Ed Crane, Murray Rothbard, and Charles Koch, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the conglomerate Koch Industries.

-- Wikipedia
Re: encryption, long-story short, the keys used to decrypt your data are stored in their data centers, but you can also encrypt those keys with a symmetric key which only you know. [0]

Re dedup/compression, it's a bit irrelevant because their plans are unmetered.

[0] https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/217664688-Can-y...
The data collected by AIVD began to pay off in November of 2014, when the agency alerted US intelligence officials that the Cozy Bear group had obtained login credentials and email from US State Department employees. enabling the National Security Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigations, and the State Department to shut down the attack within 24 hours.

Is there some connection between State Dept in 2014 and DNC in 2016?
I should maybe have a closer look at borg. Just to learn what alternatives there are to my current restic + Backblaze B2 setup.
This is very hard to find these days, but if you can, try to subscribe to a local newspaper that is not owned by a hedge fund. A friend is a reporter at a smallish hedge fund-run local newspaper in Northern California and has many horrible stories about the slashing of resources and dilution of quality all in the name of maximizing gains for some faraway owners since the hedge fund took over about a decade ago. [1]

Also, try finding an alt-weekly if your city is lucky enough to still have one. [2]

[1]https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/02/hedge-fund-vampire-a...

[2]https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/12/20/a-eulogy-...
Housing prices and the cost of any good school beyond a select few good public ones pretty much brings the lifestyle down to the same level. My friends with kids and solid incomes live comfortably but not extravagantly considering one lay-off can take your income from comfortable to 0 at a moment’s notice.
The iPad doesn’t have a hard drive. It has flash storage. The term “hard drive” is not a synonym for on-device storage: hard drives were a prevalent form of storage, but let’s not become so lax with terminology that it no longer means anything...
> This is such a lie. My brother has looking for around a year and cannot get his first position.

Anecdotes are not evidence. Maybe your brother is bad at interviewing. Getting the first position is always the hardest.
Would it not make more sense to handle this via the central bank? To just take control over the national financial and monetary system?

Or do other currencies become even more valuable if this type of collusion takes place? I guess the relatively free trade and money flows make full control impossible.

Edit: I suppose if you want to import (luxury) goods you need foreign currency...
Opera Software is a public company now. Opera the browser itself uses Blink and V8 though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_(web_browser)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_Software
Plus Moore's law has a time based element. I don't think anyone could have got to a 5nm process in 1970 say simply by deciding to up the volume of transistors being produced.
This does not sound like a fun life. Spontaneity brings life's most rewarding moments. He's basically reduced spontaneity to zero. He may be successful, but success is sometimes a prison.
My Fire TV and my old cable box remotes both had volume controls on them, but they were programmed to emit IR signals directly to the TV.
Actually meant AES-CTR with hash-of-value as IV. Workable if deterministic encryption is a requirement?
If I could power on my computer with a giant roller coaster pull lever I would
It may help to amend the title to point out that Kraken is essentially a cryptocurrency exchange/trading platform.
The data structures people use are choosen by people. So it is a choice to have flat datastructures (probably by people how see the diadvantages of recursion)
I sense sarcasm, but I'll answer anyway.

A power indicator light would do the trick...

But in all seriousness, your bluetooth headphones should have a sim card built in and be an IoT slave to the cloud. So that when you turn them off, they send a message to Alexa, Google, and Siri, so that all of your devices can tell you "YOUR HEADPHONES ARE NOW OFF" at the same time. Like a tiny choir of angels informing you of the new state of your device.

But of course, there will be one slow/older device that lags 0.3 seconds behind and says "HEADPHONES...OFF", completely out of sync with the rest, like a rebel.

Damnit, toilet! Get with the times...
"Computer, Coffee. Black."
Function Caching in Python
The addattr/catattr aren't where the fun is. That's in the indexing, allowing you to treat files with these attributes more like rows in a database. "Efficiently find me all files that have a 'genre' field set to 'bluegrass', regardless of extension" is something you can do for instance, at the filesystem level.
Keep your hands both warm and dexterous in winter?
Does it get very cold where you live? We made an innovative solution to keeping hands both warm and dexterous. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFRw-FFSLwM&feature=youtu.be

Do share your feedback.
The average TV owner doesn’t know the phrase “gain structure” - they are going to set the cable box at 5 and the TV at 100, and then call customer service for the TV because it sounds terrible and won’t get loud enough.
That's what they say in their offerings/docs, but in fact I had data kept far longer than the 30 days (after the laptop registered for Backblaze was already scrapped and not been running for months).
Seems like I won't convince you because your bias is too strong.

Look up any dictionary and I assure you that you'll find the definition fits this case perfectly.

Eg from the Oxford dictionary:

"An unfortunate incident that happens unexpectedly and unintentionally, typically resulting in damage or injury."

Death is unexpected when you hack a University server. Death was certainly unintentional in this case.
Touch screens in cars are really a bad move. Having to navigate it while driving down the freeway, or even your suburban streets is unbelievable risky. Knobs and push buttons with tactile feedback are still the best options.
I searched "phoenician runes" and interesting PDFs surfaced.

I think I found out originally from a National Geographic article.
Windows system image backups with "physical" disks backing the storage (either locally-attached disks or via iSCSI) is actually reasonably nice. On later versions of Windows you can encrypt the backup with Bitlocker. Mounting prior backup generations via command line tools isn't too hateful. Bare metal restores of the entire system are very straightforward, too.

Using a network location is somewhat less useful. You lose Volume Shadow Copy so it becomes a single generation full-backup-every-time solution. It's still easy to mount and to restore from, but marginally more useless.

It would figure that Microsoft announced (last year, I believe) that the feature is no longer being developed.
I have always wanted a flashlight with a brightness knob, that clicks to off.

It is incredibly hard to find this. I have one somewhere, but the knob was a little silly:

https://amzn.com/B07BDQS3XX

I think a better design would be a ring around the circumference that you twist.

But I agree - when it came to putting a good stereo in my car (when you used to be able to do such a thing) I always kept looking until I found one with an actual volume knob. In a moving car - grabbing a knob and finding the right volume level is immediate and doable.

By the way, schiit hel: https://www.schiit.com/products/hel
Or just a simple “repeat last choice”.
Also the delay the author mentions seems to be related to the touch bar. I have a 2012 macbook with actual physical buttons where the touch bar would be, and hitting F10 mutes the audio immediately.

The bigger problem, though, is that modern web browsers put website developers before users. It's a user agent. It should allow the user to control everything. I honestly wish they asked for permission per-domain before a website is allowed to use <video> and <audio> tags.
> uBO even in advanced mode doesn't differentiate ....scripts, CSS, images, XHR, media and frames

$script $image $subdocument $stylesheet $first-party $third-party $xmlhttprequest $csp $inline-script $inline-font ...

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Static-filter-syntax
> All this complexity is there for a reason — we don’t know how to create a simpler memory safe low-level language. But not every task requires a low-level language to solve it.

And what most people forget is that complexity works against safety: the less the programmer is distracted by other issues (e.g. memory management), the more they can focus on security.
> ηMatrix which is a fork of uMatrix, if you're using Pale Moon

Yeah! I switched to ηMatrix year ago without any issues ;)

Pale Moon + µBlock Origin + ηMatrix = <3

For more safe browsing just use Links2.[0]

Links2 is my default browser for the first time visit unknown sites & Pale Moon is my second browser for browse the Web.

Has Firefox too, but I'm using it only for few specific sites.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16191843
Democrats do not desire Hispanic immigration because they're likely to vote democrat. It's convenient but not all convenient things are causal.

By and large Democrats prioritize the most disadvantaged first, and that's poor immigrants, many of whom happen to be coming across from Mexico.
> You will accept the things you tried and failed. But you will regret not trying.

This. It's not the first time I hear this advice, and even though I'm only 24 years old, I try to live by that.
Where a sub-second difference matters is if the 20s pit stop is the limit to slotting in before your approaching competitor. Track position or lack of it has cost many titles. Undercut and overcut depend on precise pit timings to succeed.
> probably submitted direct evidence of the Chinese government controlling wechat and applying threats/ban/disappearance to the ovesea wechat users and their families in China

Yeah right. "Probably" didn't work out so well for Iraq, did it?
I wasn't replying to a particular comment, but to your recent pattern of using the site. I know you've posted here for years about other topics. That's what I'm trying to persuade you to go back to. I totally get the feeling of needing to counter wrongness with rightness, but it all too easily turns into feeding it. The people on the other side are having the same experience of course.

Banning political stories isn't an option. This is explained at the second link I mentioned: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so....
"Releasing this would be premature" is always the line that comes out of private research, with the inevitable result that by the time the company decides release is no longer premature, fundamental flaws are enshrined at so deep a level as to cause the technology to be abandoned.

Protocols developed in a small world tend to suffer from overfit to the business case that's funding them. Technology developed collaboratively with a wider research community is generally more successful in the long run. This is especially true in HPC, where the dominance of Infiniband comes in part from the availability of OpenSM (i.e., you don't need a UFM license to use the fabric, and you can implement your own routing topology using available tooling). If the intent behind SDR is as a stunt showpiece to sell Nitro instances, then I'm barking up the wrong tree. If the hope of the developers is that it makes a meaningful difference in the HPC world, then the time to open up is yesterday.

I find it deeply confusing that Amazon seems to realize this enough to present a paper to IEEE for peer review but not enough to actually participate in open science. I hope your organization reconsiders this position.
A book by the most accomplished philosopher
Is there a precedent of something like this ever happening? Seems like an enormous leap, but who doesn't love an underdog? :)
At work we have a few rooms that have 4 buttons organized in what normally is one light switch. Each button controls different parts of the rooms. I call them Heisenbuttons, you never know what they'll do until you've pressed them.
A patch is a global vulnerability alert.
Where do the authors of the article get the chart data?

It turns out that index details and data are kind of treasured secrets. I could only find Russel 3000 on Bloomberg and MarketWatch[3][4]. On official FTSE Russell page there are no current values[1]. On Googling "Russel 3000 Growth" I get a chart from Google, but when going to MorningStar, which according Google's disclaimer is their source of data for "INDEXRUSSELL", I could only find Russel 3000[2] and it has bogus quote compared to Bloomberg and MarketWatch.

I'm new to all this and since I've been reading a lot about ETFs latey I was hyped about the transparency. But it seems that if you're not Authorized Participant and the ETF tracks index such as Russell 3000 Growth, you know as much about your portfolio as if you had money in managed mutual fund.

[1] https://www.ftserussell.com/products/indices/russell-us-styl...

[2] https://www.morningstar.com/indexes/ixus/rut/quote

[3] https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/index/rua

[4] https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/RAY:IND
Thank you for doing this important work that now forms a critical component of my ability to serve recipes over a fucking website.
>Purely theoretically you could use a rock enchanted by your local witch doctor to send me this message. Are you using such device (not based on science, and verification but magical powers) to communicate?

No, but that's probably a coincidence more than anything else. Other cultures have used such methods, and were satisfied by them!

We might say "sure, but they were ignorant, those methods didn't work", etc. -- but if they had no qualms about them at the time, our objection is somewhat moot...
It appears as if chipmakers will continue to drive things as small as they can, e.g. with EUV (finally).

But the expectation is that a lot of continued performance gains will have to come through other means. These are some of the things that were talked about at the Hot Chips conference: https://enterprisersproject.com/article/2020/9/moores-law-wh...
The real problem he has is different levels of audio and missing normalization of audio levels. You shouldn't get into the situation of wanting to quickly adjust audio levels in the first place (although I agree that any latency in adjusting the volume is inacceptable).

Normalization (especially the real-time case) is an interesting topic. I've experimented with crude algorithms in the past to take all audio samples in a fixed window and then normalize them all to the same level [0]. But it's harder than you'd think. First there is a difference for humans in how loud they perceive the same sound to be at different frequencies. So any measurement function needs to take that into account. ReplayGain does this btw [1]. Then, there is the problem that if you make this window too short, you turn the audio into a garbled mess. If you make the window too long, you increase latency. This is a big deal for streaming settings. And last, you have the problem that silent periods aren't silent. E.g. if the person takes a breath, the level is increased to amplify the muffled sounds of the road nearby to levels to make you think they stand in the middle of a highway :). It's an interesting problem and while I doubt that it'll be solvable by simple hardcoded algorithms, ML might solve it. Then we can finally enjoy audio without having to manually press +++ and --- all the time :). But you know maybe we'll have different problems similar to the inability of phones to photograph the orange sky over SF.

[0]: https://github.com/est31/js-audio-normalizer

[1]: http://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=ReplayGain_specif...
Schiit audio is quite good, I have had the Magni 2 and Modi 2 for about 4 years now and they work really well. And they're small enough that I can throw in my backpack when I go somewhere for longer (>2 months) period of time.
Not related the article, but I cannot get off of Kraken's mailing list, and they won't stop spamming me. Clicking on the unsubscribe link in any of their emails has this quote in it: "Please note that this process will take 30 days to implement across our system". They they simply don't honour this, despite the 30 days in itself being ridiculous.
Do you think so? I am not familiar with doctor's state of things, but do they have to prepare for 10 years for each interview during their career, or just once in a lifetime to get into a profession? Are they tested on irrelevant stuff to their job's duties every time they change the job? I am genuinely interested.
I see that the current state of job search/acquiring in software industry is inadequate both for employers and candidates. Both sides can tell you horror stories in that regard. And I cannot say nobody tried to innovate here. They definitely did - certification efforts, recruiter's tests, not to mention each company has it's own "system". Nevertheless, what I see here is that you are almost always tested for irrelevant stuff, stuff you can completely get out of your head the moment you are hired. Until the moment you have to find a new job. Something's wrong here.
That’d require typing something in though? I’d like a dial for strength and a button per coffee option
So what exactly is your point? None of what you’ve said explains why the EU would ever align with China over the US. You just wanted to nitpick?
One thing I say is have zero expectations of anything and everything then your life will be great.

When i stopped having expectations then I did not add any complains when someone i loved did not behave/respond the way I like it and was happy.
Great points, thank you, but I think I still disagree.

In the absence of the 2A, the government would have the power to ban any weapon (using the same authority they have to ban weapons that are not covered by the 2A today). By contrast, under your proposed fictional constitution, there would be no underlying basis for the government to control clothing generally, so your 2A wouldn't expand or limit the sorts of clothing allowable.

As for your second point, I interpret the "justification clause" as saying that all retrospective laws are ...unjust, and that "No such laws" means "No retrospective laws". The hypothetical of a ...just ex-post facto law is ruled out by definition.
Would you please stop using HN primarily for political and ideological battle? We ban accounts that do that, regardless of which politics they're battling for or against, because it's against the intended spirit of the site and actually destroys it.

Commenting occasionally on a political topic as part of a diverse pattern is one thing, but only using HN for that is another. There are many past explanations of this at https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme....

If you or anyone wants to read about how we approach moderation of politics in general, https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... has lots.

(You've also repeatedly been posting flamebait comments and breaking HN's rules in other ways too. Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to them?)