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Hi all,

The SpiderMonkey (JS) team has been working on a significant update to
our JITs called WarpBuilder (or just Warp) [0,1]. Before we enable
Warp by default in Nightly (hopefully next cycle in 83) we need your
help dogfooding it.

Warp improves performance by reducing the amount of internal type
information that is tracked, optimizing for a broader spectrum of
cases, and by leveraging the same CacheIR optimizations used by last
year’s BaselineInterpreter work [2]. As a result, Warp has a much
simpler design and improves responsiveness and page load performance
significantly (we're seeing 5-15% improvements on many visual metrics
tests). Speedometer is about 10% faster with Warp. The JS engine also
uses less memory when Warp is enabled.

To enable Warp in Nightly:

1. Update to a recent Nightly
2. Go to about:config and set the "javascript.options.warp" pref to true
3. Restart the browser

We're especially interested in stability issues and real-world
performance problems. Warp is currently slower on various synthetic JS
benchmarks such as Octane (which we will continue investigating in the
coming months) but should perform well on web content.

If you find any issues, please file bugs blocking:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1613592

If you notice any improvements, we'd love to hear about those too.

Finally, we want to thank our amazing contributors André Bargull and
Tom Schuster for their help implementing and porting many
optimizations.

Turning Warp on is only our first step, and we expect to see a lot of
new optimization work over the next year as we build on this. We are
excited for what the future holds here.

Thanks!
The Warp team

[0] WarpBuilder still utilizes the backend of IonMonkey so we don't
feel it has earned the WarpMonkey name just yet.
[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1613592
[2] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/08/the-baseline-interpreter-a...
The thing the USA has been doing for almost 20 years?
They’re not making principled arguments — they’re fashionably bullshitting to signal their virtue.
Imagine if more devs used the original vision for iOS to release apps: open technologies delivered to the home screen.

So much that's in the app store has, essentially, no need to be a DRM protected binary distributable.

(Unless, maybe, the app store channel brings some significant value.)
> Indeed. And do we trust China’s numbers? I thought it was an unspoken fact that no one cites their data in legitimate media, since it is heavily manipulated.

Not particularly, but even if China undercounted by 10x, it's still way ahead of places like Sweden and the US on a per capita basis.

I have relatives there, and their lives are basically back to normal and have been for months. The bungling Western (especially American) response has unfortunately been a huge propaganda win for the Communist party. They're thanking every American asshole who loudly refuses to things as simple as wearing a mask for making them look good.
Ooh, that's really cool. I hadn't even thought of dynamic rebinding as a potential solution—it seems a little more hacky than proper native functionality (especially since application menus will still display the CUA/Windows shortcuts), but it sounds like a great way for people used to Macs to comfortably use Linux and Windows. Thanks for sharing!
This isn't quite correct although that's how poker was taught in the 90s. The goal of the top players these days is to play as close as possible to optimal poker (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nash_equilibrium) and not worry about the individual hand their opponent might have in a given moment.
The light side is that they acted in a truly benevolent way towards the people they helped. They seemed enthusiastically happy to do the right thing by founders, regardless of the cost to themselves. For example, by encouraging founders to sell early, if that's what they wanted to do. And by protecting founders from the machinations of other investors.

Even from the outside, it was obvious that you could trust the founders of YC. And you would have to be stupid not to want the one investor in Silicon Valley that you could actually rely on.

The darker side of YC (and its ultimate undoing IMHO) is that they focused too much on helping people like Sam Altman: upper class people from "elite" schools that didn't actually need or appreciate the help. They were polished and flattering but, for the most part, couldn't actually do the hard work of starting up. YC helped a tiny % of the people that asked for help, and not because they couldn't afford to help more, but because they wanted people of a certain "culture fit", hence the "elite" school style interview process.

Then YC became a retirement home for these failed founders, where they confidentially deliver advice they couldn't follow themselves. Now, it is just another credential to be gamed by the wealthy with the requisite percentage of token exceptions. It became as fake and hollow as the "elite" schools are. Not bad, run by bad people, or totally useless, just devoid of anything authentic, energetic, or based on a genuine ethos.

It has become a shell of its former self, destined to slowly burn out. With every advantage possible, YC couldn't even replicate itself.

Sadly, the YC that Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston created is dead.
> “Magawa’s dedication, skill and bravery are an extraordinary example of this and deserve the highest possible recognition,” Ms. McLoughlin said.

It is funny because the little animal probably has no idea what it is doing and does not care for anything but its lunch.
They’re certainly bothering people and threatening peoples’ freedom. Thanks to the export of fundamentalist Islam from certain countries, my home country of Bangladesh is a more dangerous place today then when we left 30 years ago. (And it was under a military dictatorship then!) Unsurprisingly, we take harsh measures to crack down on fundamentalism, including banning Islamist parties and executing terrorists: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-48154781 (noting that British-Bangladeshi teenager who left to join ISIS would be executed if she went back to Bangladesh). And it’s not just in Bangladesh or Pakistan—while America has been fortunate to be spared from a major terrorist attack since 9/11, our European allies deal with them routinely. To a great extent, the United States is subsidizing the cost of fighting terrorism for all of these countries. After all, in Syria, which is the subject of the article, we got dragged into the conflict by our middle eastern allies.

Now, it’s fair to say that none of this is America’s problem. And I probably agree with you. But there is a risk we wake up 30 years from now and huge swaths of the world have been taken over by fundamentalist ideologies that are very hostile to us. We should think a bit about what that world would look like and whether it’s desirable.

Americans take for granted that we live in a world shaped by American norms. 160 constitutions around the world are based directly or indirectly in our own. (Bangladesh’s constitution begins with “we the people” just like the United States’.) The Star Trek version of the future (“America in Space”) comes about because of our willingness to invest in the security and economic and social development of the world. And maybe we’ve done enough, and maybe it’s time to let others lead. I’m pretty sympathetic to the arguments that it’s time to turn our focus inward, and we’re doing more harm than good. But the analysis is much bigger than whether certain specific people are attacking US soil at this very moment.
I can't quite tell if this post is a parody of the kind of comments that turn up on every single Tesla article, or if it is actually one of the kind of comments that turn up on every single Tesla article.
Cool, I wish someone would do this for French (the rules are not so easy)
It’s not the style of coffee I prefer but it will do in a pinch! I’m one of those obnoxious snobs who get freshly roasted coffee delivered weekly and grind each morning, so I’m admittedly not the easiest to please ;)
On Mac the other default for navigating backwards is Cmd-[, if that helps any! (It's also a default in many applications for navigating backwards in whatever sense the app may intend.)

I don't use Windows other than for gaming, so I'm afraid I don't know if there are other shortcuts other than backspace.
I am almost tempted to write it myself, none of 3 billion existing Todo apps support repeatable tasks
It is hard to find a more popular actor of dissemination of knowledge than wikipedia.

China is trying hard to remind the world on every occasion how committed it is to censorship.
Why shouldn't people who work with brutal dictators like Putin be jailed for life?
The usual argument, yet it works quite well in Languages like Lisp and Smalltalk, both much more dynamic that Python.

At every moment the image can completely change shape, at any given breakpoint I can change anything and then resume execution at a previous point and so on.
It's hard to count dead Americans, there was a financial (and political) incentive in over-counting deaths and we probably conflated some deaths from different causes and we didn't know how to treat them in the hospital.

IMHO the greatest factor is using steroids and non invasive methods instead of ventilators.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/06/why-is-it-that...

Recent studies point (some say 3 times the number of infected, others 6-24 times) in the direction that we severely undercounted the infected because of its asymptomatic nature in healthy individuals.

Which means the death rate is nothing to cry about.
Since Swift got ABI “stable” stamp the runtime and standard libraries is shipped with the OS, reducing the overhead by ~50 mb.
> Chosing insurance-package on the rental car,

FWIW Insurance is a negative expected value "asset", but it makes sense to buy it (not in this case necessarily). A one time massive negative hit to your finances could be devastating compared to periodic insurance payments. Expected value is a simplified representation of the distribution of outcomes which is really what you should be thinking about regarding risk management.
My niece has aggressive MS and Ocrevus didn't help.

CRSPR is the true dream. No more MS.
Sounds like this might have been prompted by Jonathan Blow's talk, Preventing the Collapse of Civilization: https://youtu.be/pW-SOdj4Kkk

It's a shame that there isn't usually enough incentive in mainstream software practice (or business reality) to polish and make things work flawlessly - day to day life could be a lot nicer if we dived deeper and thought longer-term.
I didn't even know this "feature" was available on Firefox (despite using it since version 2). Turns out, it is only enabled on Windows:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.backspace_action

Maybe it was copied from IE to keep "closer to the platform"?
Maybe I'm just ignorant, but haven't browsers nearly become just a VM for JavaScript? Rendering documents is sometimes incidental. I'm not sure Swing would actually be worse than HTML5.
Chapters are separate from which languages have a site. (E.g. thee exists Wikimedia Canada, Wikimedia NYC, wikimedia cascadia etc. That is unrelated to there being an english language wikipedia)

Http://zh.wikipedia.org uses some weird auto conversion to try and be both lsnguages.
> We only seem to do it when a drug is initially declared as safe; introduced into the market; and then we find that it has side-effects that clearly correspond to some subpopulation.

This exact thing happened with another MS drug: natalizumab[0].

It was originally approved in 2004, but later withdrawn in 2005 due to some cases of Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML), an opportunistic brain infection that is often fatal. The manufacturer later identified a specific antibody for a virus (JC Virus[1]) present in ~50% of the population which correlated highly with incidence of PML after 1-2 years on natalizumab (~1% chance of PML vs ~0.01% of the normal population). tl;dr the blood-brain barrier maintained by natalizumab also prevents the body from killing the JC Virus in your brain, causing inflammation and eventually death or serious permanent disability.

It was then reintroduced but now patients must undertake regular blood screening (every 6 months) for JCV antibodies, and regular (~12 months) MRI scans to monitor for inflammation (though this is pretty standard with MS these days to look for changes in lesions).

My wife has a rare type of MS (tumefactive MS, ~3000 people in the US have it) and has been on natalizumab since diagnosis about 3.5 years ago with no evidence of disease progression. The story would've been wildly different if we were born 20 years earlier before these treatments came about, it's honestly amazing. Without modern treatments it's very possible she would've been confined to a wheelchair within 10 years of diagnosis, but instead her symptoms are only really noticeable upon examination by a neurologist.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalizumab

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3128336/
It boggles that Internet strangers can make blanket statements like this.
I’ve just tested on Chrome: backspace on its own does nothing, going to the previous page is bound to cmd-LeftArrow.
Recently I was hired for a new job and my very first task was a considerably big undertaking for an entirely new feature of the application. I felt a bit overwhelmed, and was considering asking for something simpler like bug fixes so I could get familiar with the code first, but ultimately decided that I could make a better impression and a bigger impact with this project.

After reading this, I suppose I can say that I was considering asking for a snack, so I'm glad I chose to stick with the new feature. I just hope I actually pull it off.
Yes or hosting that csv somewhere in redshift/s3

Why would I use tableau for things that are not related to like "enterprise software" and "requirements"? Csv is perfect for teams that can read
I wish Apple added a warning to the charging icon when using one of the wrong ports. Or just little marks next to the USB ports that charges the best to label them as "super charging ports".
Actually no, because C11 has removed features from C89 and C99, while C17 has done some UB "improvements".
Stupid question: Why does anyone really need this GPU?

Does playing a video game in 8k make you a better player?

Are your eyes sensitive enough to notice the difference over 4k or even 1080p?

Is your reaction time fast enough to realise any advantage from ultra-high frame rate?

Is your monitor even capable of keeping pace with an ultra-high frame rate?

This looks like a replay of the desktop processor wars a few years ago. Does anyone really care anymore if your computer runs at 5ghz and doubles as a space heater?
You still have to dodge things because there are one-shot mechanics, it's just that the game is visually very noisy and the visual cues to dodge the thing is often covered or very hard to see because there's so much going on (lots of monsters, monster projectiles, player projectiles, etc.) and it seems like there's no effort to make the really painful things stand out against the background noise.
You don't have to have crazy on boarding. In fact, with systems like Kubernetes it can take me months to finally grasp the whole system... especially if you have your own Kubernetes Operator and custom YAML configuration that maps to Kube's... which I have seen.

You can use Fargate for example, which should give you easy to manage and fast deployment times - you just have to figure out the fast build time.

For FastComments.com I can do a build in under two minutes. The second you merge to master:

1. E2E testing runs, which is massively parallelized. Each test suite's data gets namespaced so they don't step on each other.

2. The build runs, takes 30 seconds, because it's not a compiled language. Although if it was in Java I don't think it would take very long.

3. Deployment happens, Orcha sends the bundle to all the servers, stops the deamon, extracts it, restarts the systemd daemon.

4. E2E testing runs again against production as a smoke test.

This all happens in under a couple minutes. Not a very small app - package.json has 50 dependencies and the E2E test suite has ~40 tests. These tests are complicated - some will open two browsers for example to test the live commenting features...
Chrome hasn't supported backspace since 2016
Todoist supports repeating tasks, but doesn't have the nice time buckets like this app does
No, it's not. It's entire purpose is protecting the copyright owners ability it extract rents against others who might offer competing services, which is exactly the spirit of traditional proprietary licensing, and exactly opposed to the value proposition of Free/Open Source Software.

The terms might be superficially similar to some F/OSS licenses, but the reason it fails to meet the OSI or FSF definitions is precisely that it's spirit is diametrically opposed to F/OSS
Someone commented this article in response to your comment and it was deleted before I could reply. Why?

https://www.gwern.net/docs/genetics/2016-plomin.pdf
> Almost 50 years later I have an incredibly powerful computer that I carry around in my pocket and I call it "my phone". It can solve all kinds of mathematical equations, display live video, and communicate in real time with the furthest corners of the globe.

And you use it mostly to browse cat pictures :).

Perhaps it takes a technologist to notice, but for every actual technological improvement that happens, the UI glitter gets cycled 20 times. Majority of "change" in computing technologies isn't improving anything, it's only inciting you to throw away your old device and buy a new one.

Technology is amazing. But if you think of Star Trek visions, you can realize that our technology could be 10x more ergonomic and better than it is, and could be solving 10x more problems than it is. That's what I read these complains are about - unrealized potential. But perhaps it's because I'm a techie and a trekkie that I see it this way.
What do you mean by ECC is more expensive?

Are you talking about ECC ram being more expensive? That's probably true but why not give people the option whether to use ECC? ECC being optional is a good idea anyway because ECC memory is generally slower.

I don't think the actual ECC implementation in the processor is very expensive to implement.

Consumer CPUs not having ECC is pure product segmentation, without technical justification, IMO.
I agree, but it's my understanding that infectious disease experts aren't the ones presenting these worries about long haulers. None of the doctors quoted in the article seem to be infectious disease experts.
Well, if this isn't a harbinger for where this community currently falls on the geek-mop spectrum...
Another white man here that disagrees with your assessment. How can pointing out the lack of representation on the nation's highest court with a desire to fix (the Biden quote) ever be construed as "overt and open sexism"?
> Because software does not decay on its own (despite the misleading term "bitrot" being popular in tech circles).

in theory yes, in practice no. I work on a product that targets windows and macos. on windows yeah, a version of our software from 2015 probably works as well as it did the day it was released. apple deprecates stuff in their API every year that we have to go back and update. they also break a lot of stuff that isn't formally deprecated and we have to find workarounds for that to. "our software will work forever as long as you never update your OS" is not acceptable to most customers.
Iron, How Did They Make It? Part II
It's a problem. A big problem.

If you look at "racism" and other forms of inequality that are intractable in the US and other countries you find it can understood in terms of "placism".

(e.g. "busing" as an answer to school inequality and the resulting backlash; if minorities lived in as a diverse set of places as white people did in the US the Democrats would have 58+ seats in the Senate, etc.)

Sam could prove me wrong by sending the PG/Jessica combo to another place (Fresno, LA, Las Vegas, Dublin, Edingburgh, ...) and have them accomplish something. People have been asking for this for years but we've always heard that it's not negotiable, YC is tied to a sacred patch of land, etc.

Someone who shows that "sacred land is everything" by their behavior is going to inevitable sound disingenuous when they try to distill universal principles out of the YC experience.
IMO the next YC will be whatever gives founders the fastest and most straightforward process to raising their first $50-500k. Currently YC itself is #1 on that dimension (an underrated part of their success), but it doesn't have to be that way. Someone who focuses on unbundling that aspect could probably become the best at it.
France: buying paracetamol can be done freely here ,but it has to be asked for at pharmacies, and the dangerous dosage (4000mg/day) is heavily stressed.

Also, it is written on the instruction manual, in quite big letters.
If the people who install the application are not aware of how invasive the tracking is, I believe that would be the problem.
The concept is very appealing to me. I have always avoided the use of planners that expect you to set exact times for completion. It just seems so unreasonable that anyone would be able to be that precise all the time about everything.

I did find two typos under the FAQ that you will probably want to correct.

"Why use Stongweek?" needs and "r" in there and in the answer to the question you also make the same spelling error. Purely coincidental or maybe cut and pastey.
This did ask me to log in. It doesn't in private mode though.

I think if Google detects that you've _ever_ logged into Google, it's trying to authenticate you when you visit a Google Groups page. Private mode is my default workaround for Google Groups links these days.
I think what’s most interesting about this article is what it doesn’t mention - the two other co-founders, Robert Morris and Trevor Blackwell. Did they play important roles that have just never been described outside of YC? Or do we have to conclude that maybe not every co-founder turns out to be equally important to an organization’s future success? Of course, that may turn out to be a “thing you can’t say”...

Maybe it’s time for Jessica and Paul, the authors of “Founders at work” and “Hackers and Painters” to write another book, this time the definitive history of YC? Perhaps the way to get more YC’s in the world is for people to really know and understand the early stories of YC, warts and all?
Wikimedia cascadia, wikimedia catalonia, both exist....
Without going into murkier territories like bias

Unfair - debate questions were leaked to Hillary ahead of time.

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/donna-brazile-hillary...

Destabilizing - the Hillary campaign promoted Trump as a candidate.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/11/hillary-clin...
Windows XP SP1 source code leaked
You could however write a very short shell script that would do that for you. I read loads and loads of PDFs on my Kindle, and I’ve got a very simple script kindlecopy.sh that copies them to an appropriate (newly created if necessary) directory on the Kindle, based on the PDF metadata. That PDF metadata, too, can be edited with much lighter-weight tools than Calibre. Entrusting Calibre with doing all this work would mean much slower performance.

I still use Calibre for copying the occasional EPUB/MOBI to the Kindle, but I could replace that, too, with a shell script. Calibre’s ebook-convert is a standalone program, you could script that without ever opening the Calibre library-management application.