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So we're on our way to finish the re-creation of Java, by unifying the JavaScript and foreign code into a single bytecode format.

Honestly I'm all for it, and wouldn't change much since most JavaScript written today goes through compilation anyway (TypeScript and/or Babel). Only executing bytecode and taking out JavaScript parsers/interpreters would simplify browser implementations too. Just... what a roundabout trip it has been.
Can’t stand the ever-popular “Manager.” Java and C++ especially loves classes that manage things.
Where you see over valuing of the individual, I see a massive about of Tribalism, and collectivism. Maybe not in music I admit I am not following music culture very closely but just about every other aspect of human society today (and I suspect music is as well) is deeply steeped in the tribe/group/collective
I think this is an interesting take.

People who might in the past have gotten their new music from such deeply passionate music lovers and experts as John Peel, or any number of other DJs, are now often using algorithms in their place. And there is a sense that those algorithms are created by people with no real love for music or personal investment in it as part of our culture, which is kind of sad.

I think this is a big part of why music discovery through Spotify feels so soulless, especially compared to something like Bandcamp Weekly.

I guess their next step would be to start creating the music itself with algorithms. You would simply turn on Spotify and it would start playing a continuous stream of algorithmically created music to match your profiled tastes.
1. I have a binder with hard back

3. I play the violin and most of my music didn’t come in one piece one book. Each book has many pieces.

Only concertos sometimes occupy a whole book. Even then, they also contain the piano accompaniment scores.

4. I agree, some good editions are very considerate.
Why terrible tho? Go all out overdo it. Afterwards you won't have such a great urge to press everything i to your ideomes anymore. Better do it in a fun little side project and try it out than doing it in professional projects because you never could before.
If you look at the state by state maps, it looks as if there are basically no actual plans to build anything in Wyoming other than an existing short segment around Casper. More generally, rail through mountain ranges made use of scarce passes and built expensive tunnels and bridges. There are some examples of abandoned route segments that can still be walked (and maybe biked) on in whole or in part--for example near Steven's Pass in the Cascades. But I imagine the main routes through major mountain ranges are still in use. There are gaps in Montana too and a small one in Washington.

I assume it's the same reason people bike on I-5. If there's a good route through the mountains, either a major road or rail or both is likely using it.
That monolith vs Proxomitrons bit would be an interesting and important distinction to make, if it does turn out to be extraterrestrial and unequivocally technological it wouldn't necessarily count as evidence that intelligent life has evolved over there... only that something/someone technological is about.

But yeah, unshielded electronics until proven otherwise.
I think my reason (1) explains your (b).

As for (a), I agree that a lot would not be in politics but, if you have seen it first hand, academia sucks the life and minds of out of early stage researchers in a way that other jobs do not. The salary means they are comfortable enough not to complain and no time for it anyway.
Hi, I'm the author. My old machine is Macbook 12". Not Macbook Air, neither Macbook Pro. It's the small, portable Macbook 12" with low performance, low memory, and no fan. In other words, the machine was kind of underpowered already when released, for the trade-off of getting excellent portability and silence.
> there's just no spot for the people below even to compete

This is often stated like a fact of life, but it’s really just a decision that we’ve collectively made.

The NIH and NSF will happily give you $75,000 to train three grad students, but not to hire one experienced staff scientist, even though there may be few positions for the students at the end and the staff scientist may be more efficient.
Huh, this is different from the East Coast Greenway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Coast_Greenway

https://www.greenway.org/
For timing based attacks, couldn't we start looking at injecting random jitter into the JS runtime? You could source the timing entropy from a CSPRNG so that attackers would be unable to distinguish from random noise. Obviously, this would have an impact on performance, but it could be something that is controlled on a per-host basis as required.
The West is yet to learn the lesson that with authoritarian equality also come those who are more equal than others.
From what I understand the whole reason this happened was that Boeing wanted the new efficient engines without having to call the plane a new model. So they were really asking pilots with no training on the new Max planes to react correctly to a situation that didn't exist on the old plane within 10 seconds. Surely this is basically admitting to being at fault?

Also, these airlines that bought the Max on the basis they wouldn't have to re-train the pilots are presumably having to foot the bill for this?
Admittedly I haven't tried anything newer than a GTX 1070, but on most cards you can softmod or hardmod the voltage to dangerous levels, enough to burn some VRM components or the GPU itself. It's quite fun :D
I had in mind things like think tanks, startups and so on
Long list of security patches leading to code execution on the latest iOS
Do you have a link to the original statement?
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The great think with Bitcoin is that it's a Trojan horse: Coinbase and the whole world can act like it's following all AML rules, can be controlled by IRS, and can create arbitrary blacklists. It's better to give regulators the feeling that they are in control, as this way they allow people to ,,hack'' the current financial system.

What Microstrategy did with getting $650 million debt with 0.75% rate and moving to Coinbase institutional Bitcoin storage is to use the vulnerability of the current financial system that was used by bankers for a long time for financing wars to finally do something good and move us closer to a non-debt based financial system.

What matters is having the option of total freedom, not using it all the time. Sure, I could make anonymous payments with Bitcoin if I really wanted, but as long as the laws don't get to the levels of gold confiscation, I'm OK with being 100% legal and being tracked.

Ross Ulbrich was not using the fact that Bitcoin is a trojan horse: don't talk about the vulnerability of the central banking systems, just use all the legal tools and loopholes it gives and get rich.
I remember having AltaVista as my primary bookmark, until they accelerated the ads and monetization, and render it almost completely useless. It was so obvious they wanted to make quick, obscene money from of it. They cared very little about the negative impact that had on user experience. That's why AltaVista went like the dodo. Period.
I bet Facebook has forced updates.
I'd say that after the launch of Github wikis/Pages, using READMEs as anything but a quick project overview is a regression rather than an evolution.

Sure, you can put a bunch of quick links in there to get people started, but as a potential user interested in using a project, I'm not interested in your complete overview of the source code architecture or the necessary onboarding steps.

Put a quick link in the README to guide people to the right place, but don't put all of your project documentation in there unless your project is particularly small. We've grown beyond storing a bunch of texts files in a SVN respository, every major source control system also has a way to document your project.

If you choose to keep your documentation inside of your source control, the rise of Markdown viewers that support navigating links can help you achieve the same benefits by just linking to docs/project-overview.md in the top of your README.
> We all know that a hard lockdown brings down the new-infection numbers WEEKS after beginning the lockdown, yet there are still a lot of people on Twitter, YT and at demonstrations (at least here in Germany) where folks are angry that the lockdown doesn't work 2 DAYS after its beginning.

In the spirit of understanding, in your words what are the biggest arguments against forcing a hard lock down?
Why are the XX:30 clock emojis usually wrong?
Most emoji designers put the hour clock hand to same position as it was 30 minutes earlier, such as here :
https://emojipedia.org/twelve-thirty/ (or any other XX:30 time)

Although this looks just plain wrong, it might make some sense to the speakers of the languages with the concept of “half after” (such as English or French). (Does it actually?)

Speakers of languages with the concept of “half to” (such as German or Russian) will get confused. And probably anyone who is used to a classical clock/watch.

Any idea why most big companies designed the emojis the wrong way and did not fix them later?
oh god yes, that would be nice. I know what i typed stupid search engine, if i put it in quotes...i only want that exact phrase. Don't just cast that aside and search for the words individually.
I fail to understand Facebook's strategy/reasoning for running this campaign against Apple. It is generating a newsworthy backlash which serves only to draw attention to FB's practice of tracking users across domains/apps, when many of said users were unaware of this, and might not be comfortable with it.

I would be really interested to hear arguments opposing my assumptions. There must be something that I am overlooking - Facebook isn't a stupid company, not by a long chalk. What is the strategy/reasoning behind this campaign?
We will respect your search query at Runnaroo if you use quotes. Google also has a verbatim search filter, which does a decent job most of the time.
In practice there is no such tradeoff, the tails of a Gaussian fall off extremely rapidly so if you simply 10x the number of iterations you’ll have failure become astronomically unlikely.
Scrolling this page on mobile is terrible and I think that's a pretty compelling argument against it.

I would love if every package had a LINK to a live notebook to test things, but it should not replace the README.
emacs is my main editor but I haven't figured out org-mode. So I see the users as more a subset (possibly power-) group of emacs users. But yeah while there may be other interfaces to org-mode these days emacs is the primary one.
You can safely use this type of test in your pipeline if you set a fixed random seed.
Hi, I'm the author. Thanks for the correction. Do you know how to install the ARM-native ones, then? Or how does it work? I thought a brew installed as native would install native apps.
I suppose it is, but Java applets never took off because they were horrible. Half the time they wouldn't work, and when they did they never felt like they were part of a page, and generally felt bloated and slow. Much more like a bad version of Flash than something that felt like part of a page.
> reducing high-quality free content

I grew tired of paywall sites in my news feed a couple months back so I started hiding them in google news. It's nice to not run into them but the amount of "quality" content I now see is a number approaching 0.
Now we just need an article about Geocities
Certainly. But now you have a trail for recreational users that would probably have to be taken away if it were converted back to rail.
Not only syntax, but also standard library, ecosystem and etc. You could easily transpile AssemblyScript project to JavaScript via tsc if use portable glue code. From C it I guess it borrows AOT compilation, ability to use low-level intrinsics and more granular and sound types. Btw many people still thought AS has manual memory management, but it's not true. By default it use hybrid ARC and GC approach called PureRC:
https://github.com/dcodeIO/purerc/blob/master/papers/Bacon03...
It can go pretty damn far, though. 20-40% extra performance is noticeable. But yeah, memory size and throughput can be a serious bottleneck.
I only browsed the article but had fond memories of how revolutionary AltaVista was when it launched. Suddenly you could browse the web without following links. This started a trend where you provided lesser and lesser value by stuffing links on your homepages (yes this was a thing) as people didn't need the links anymore.

Some years later I remember AltaVista suddenly became full of paid links and ads, to the point of unusability. This is when Google came in, with no ads, no paid links, and actual good search results.

The irony.. now Google fills at least half the first search page with paid for links and unusable results.

Unfortunately, nobody (in the long run) gives away something completely for free. I would pay $1-2/month for a search portal without paid links and no sell-off of my private info.
Interesting, didn't know this was just a tech showcase. And it's always puzzling how management fails to monetize something new and successful. It seems most are only able to copy competitors.
Nice edit
Are you arguing that stating Gebru is Black is a miscategorization, or are you arguing that the category doesn't make sense?
the bill http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml...
Security experts are 'freaking out' about how foreign hackers carried out the'mo
Benefits of being the only global superpower. Believe me, other countries would gladly do the same, they just lack the aircraft carrier fleet to support such policy.
See how Fb's ad weasels its way out of even saying what Apple's change is that they are objecting to?

Think with the head of the average print newspaper reader who has no context. The ad is just pushing mental buttons and appeals to emotion.

Apple will introduce a pop-up permission dialog that asks the user if their personal data should be shared with the app for tracking purposes (including ad personalization). That's it.
Yeah :) Sorry, I tried to be funny. I write the blog for 15 years or so. More info about me is on that site mentioned.
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> Oh, and Boeing will go under. Where's your shareholder value then?

The involved shareholders will have already sold their shares by then, and be busy destroying some other company's long term existence for some short term valuation that they can dump and run.

And any criminal investigation will stop on the small people they coerced into doing the illegal deeds, because they of course left no evidence trail of those decisions.
Does anyone know why are both altavista's and digital's sites excluded from archive.org?
Your wife was wrong, you should have said something.
Do you think $1-2 a month would really be enough? Something tells me Google makes more than $1-2 a month off me.
Agreed and point taken.. A good MBA's would realize the short sightedness of the actions they are taking (like they should have done in Boeing's case) and good engineers should have the integrity to say "you want me to do what? hell no!" That said, the malady I speak about is very real. (maybe even endimic?)
>it's impossible to get close to anyone the older you get.

Reminds me of: "Few people past twenty preserve a little bit of that easy affection, the one of beasts." (Céline, Journey to the end of the night)

>the older we get the less our chances of going through a common struggle

Even (or rather especially) if you are old, you can still stumble on some stranger and realize that you have a lot in common.
The Observer Effect – Tobi Lütke
If you can't run Java, C#, Node, Python, Ruby, Rust and Go at a baseline, you're really going to piss off enough developers that you won't get uptake/use on your custom chip platform.

I'm not sure how much we will see divergence, or how much it matters to most developers. If the tools can compile/target a given CPU and operate, devs largely won't care. Some will, most won't.

I don't think that MS and Amazon will stray too far from generally supported 64-bit arm instructions as a base. Maybe hardware optimizations that will work better in some workloads, but the baseline will likely work. This is only because of the diverse languages and tools that they need to support.

I think it's more about shoring up options, reducing costs and optimizing data center layouts. When targeting cloud, many apps are already scaling horizontally. So you don't need to perform like an M1 for general use as long as you can scale horizontally enough at a competitive price point, you can get a very long way without a ton of custom extension.
>>if it existed, was findable

This is really the precedent that mattered, I think. Remember one line of a poem? You can probably find the rest. Recall a Douglas Adams piece about rice farming in Bali or Java or something... you can find it. As you say, it took boolean gymnastics. But, that really just means modifying your search terms and scrolling through some results.

Being less powerful than 2020 google kind of put more power/responsibility in users' hands. A user needed to use a search engine like a tool.

I want what you want too... Everything google (mail/search/youtube, etc)... but designed for more user effort. Finding the best-for-most result instantly is great, but sometimes you want the tool to help you find a result on page 112 within a few minutes.

Bring back a little bit of a directory feel even. Let me narrow down, refine and shape results gradually. Assume that I will rummage through a bunch of crap to find what I want.
Great Julianne Moore movie about early-onset alzheimer's disease called 'Still Alice'.
This is probably the first HN thread in 2020 where the majority of the posts complain about taxes as opposed to be supportive of them.
According to the article, altavista switched owners 3 times during the last 3 years of its life. I assume one of these had the bright idea to fill the results with crappy paid-for links. Google has these geniuses to thank for priming the playfield for them by destroying themselves.
Results were crap because pages started doing SEO by stuffing white keywords on white background. If it were relaunched today, it may be efficient. But the whole game is to stay on top of this.

DDG provides almost the Google results, yet it feels much less efficient. I think, for the single-box-with-single-keyword-search market, Google is the best we can do, but there might still be room for other search engines.

Also, if you need historical, political or medical information, that is 3 domains where Google is already out of the game.

There is a lot of room today for a search engine which would only returns technical results and not politically or racially motivated results like Google does (Google had project to promote races other than Whites, and thus, started not returning some results depending on the race of the scientist).
How the US military used a creepy island to test cyberattacks on the grid
You are making a big leap between using this at home and using it on the go. For one thing, nobody has battery technology good enough to allow someone to walk around with a headset on for the entire day.

This claim of yours to mm accuracy needed leading to mass surveillance is a figment of an over active imagination. Will there eventually be googles on everyone and tracking for those? Yes, probably when we have nuclear batteries. Will we have other privacy invading tactics wielded against us by more unethical corporations in the meantime? You bet.

I can barely keep my phone charged all day.
We just paid $80 to ship a 1kg package from Canada to the USA.

It seems like it would be cheaper to send it to LEO using the SpaceX Starship.
So this guy wrote an opinion piece which some people found ot be controversial. The essay got retracted and the editors suspended. This reminds me of what happened after that Cotton oped in the NYT. Same chain of events.
Isnt the us taxing basically everyone even if they moved somewhere else years ago?
Trying to reframe the discussion from privacy, tracking and spying to small businesses reaching customers, people finding relevant products, market efficiency, user experience and comfort and convenience, and also the price. People love zero price. The hurdle from 0 to 1 cent is enormous, so threatening with costs is also effective.

I wouldn't be surprised if they tried to push an angle that it's immoral to withhold your data, that you become a leech, a free rider, a pirate.
A long-held belief first proposed in 1833 about how hummingbirds drink is wrong
I've largely switched to duckduckgo, which does honor quotes in that way.
No. Progressive.
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I wrote this yesterday (and slightly edited/updated it today):

I can’t help but think about the long game here. Are there complex PR strategies that could potentially be employed here by Apple and Facebook together?

I wonder if this ‘fight’ represents some sort of controlled opposition by a few Silicon Valley tech giants to win favorable regulation for the tech industry as a whole: by showing a fake rivalry Apple and Facebook (and others) can carefully control the overall narrative, and although this story focuses on a negative issue (which, let's be real, is not much worse than the average person having already soured on Facebook anyway), it could lead to incomplete, premature, pro-corporate laws, rapidly lobbied for, and passed, by mostly tech illiterate lawmakers (just look at all the senate hearings the past few years [1]).

To the average citizen, these new laws will seem like a transparent and proper attempt to address the major problems in the tech/adtech space, but in reality they are psuedo-solutions, as they do not tackle the underlying root causes. In the end it allows the tech corps to slightly adjust their products (small concessions in the short term), after which they will slowly repurpose the old mechanisms into new shells, and continue with business as usual.

I think a Prop22-inspired PR playbook/campaign is also in full motion here.

This seems like corporate-capitalist gaslighting of the working class in one of it’s most advanced forms.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stXgn2iZAAY
It's not political to say someone's wrong if they are in fact wrong.

Although speaking truth to power is unavoidably political ..
> I’m not flying with any airline that can’t guarantee my flight won’t be on one of these. I doubt I’m alone.

You have to outweigh the cost of retraining all pilots for an alternative plane. This whole mess happened because that is something the airlines really want to avoid and Boeing was greedy enough to offer it.
“ The state’s 30 wealthiest zip codes hold 20 percent of the state’s net worth, while making up only 2 percent of state population.”[1] This study uses zip code as a proxy, but it seems to be a lot less concentrated that 1% holding 46% of the wealth. By your logic, to be fair these taxes would need to be about half as progressive.

[1]https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2019/4093/ca-geography-wealth-090...
OP says people are moving into Netherlands. That’s effort. Not just not moving out.