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Think of WASM as a JVM alternative, but it has heavy sandboxing.

By default, WASM is pure computing. It can't interact with the outside world. You need to allow WASM to talk to the outside world explicitly.

You have native performance. It's fast.

It's platform-independent, and multiple languages can compile to WASM.

The properties lead to some useful applications.

Serverless, FaaS. If you use WASM for Serverless you get very fast execution + cold starts. Cloudflare Workers can do 200ms cold starts and 20ms a request. Fastly Cloud@Edge not being a Chrome browser, but instead, its own runtime can do better and serve requests in 10ms. The low overhead and secure sandboxing means you can bin-pack these at a massive scale and call them with little overhead. It's much more efficient than Lambda etc. Cloudflare and Fastly as edge CDN providers allow you to deploy fast apps, globally distributed by default, piggyback off their existing caching functionality with no need for API gateways/complex plumbing etc. Fastly's C@E is especially interesting. Unfortunately, Fastly have failed to capitalise on it product-wise. As a product, Cloudflare is way ahead. The best tech doesn't win. I'm not disparaging Cloudflare here. I personally use Cloudflare over Fastly because, at this point, Cloudflare are a more complete product/ecosystem with superior pricing model.

For serverless, it's early days but WASM/WASI will probably disrupt the current FaaS providers once the rough edges are worked out. I wish Fastly had a better product/business execution team to realise C@E properly.

Outside of Serverless/FaaS it makes massive sense instead of people deploying full OS's in a Docker image on Kubernetes, instead deploy WASM modules. Wasmcloud (https://wasmcloud.dev/) looks to be one of the first here running an actor system in Kuberenetes where the Actors are WASM apps.

The other place where it has big potential is to be the Electron from hardware devices. Here's a talk for building a WebAssembly runtime for IPlayer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28paRXqI-Gk . They essentially made the bulk of the logic/app in Webassembly then created small shims for different devices to load it. Webassembly allowed the hardware providers to offer a portable runtime that can execute 3rd party software in a restricted runtime.

WebAssembly in the browser is the least exciting part about WebAssembly. I'm incredibly excited to see how it is used for Microservices and serverless.
It is common practice for PE firms to buy insurance companies in order to better manage the investment side of the business.
Thank you for the thoughtful advice. Honestly, that is what my gut is telling me as well. Only thing is - I don't have another backup in terms of someone else I could ask to replace them. Do you think I should end this business relationship regardless, or wait until I have found an alternative?
That is an ugly page.
Not surprised at all. My sister in law apparently has been getting free stuff/refunds for all sorts of stuff.

From what I have been told it’s a network of groups coordinating on FB. Seems quite sophisticated.

She has gotten 1000’s of dollar of items.

And yes they post items saying who is interested in this item or that and then people respond saying yes or no.
Glad to hear you switched away from listening to podcasts on Spotify. Their attempt to buy up a huge number of podcasts in the last couple of years, which resulted in exclusification of some of those podcasts, is an awful development in the previously free and open podcasting community. I love podcasts and I'd prefer to be able to keep listening to all of my favorite podcasts on whatever app I want.
The animation and VFX artists in California are unionized. For example, here's the Animation Guild [1] and the list of studios covered [2]. It's basically all the big names plus many of the small ones.

What the union couldn't do is prevent jobs from offshoring: the jobs moved to Vancouver, Montreal, and wherever else the tax credits were. I think it's still the case that the studios are getting like a 50% tax rebate on Canadians working in film in Vancouver. When your staff are "half price", that's hard to compete with.

tl;dr: it's not a lack of unions.

[1] https://animationguild.org/

[2] https://animationguild.org/about-the-guild/studio-list/
Do a write up of all the missing patterns in the same style as this article! I’ll read it.
I didn’t say or imply any of that. I’m beginning to question if any of you responding even read my comment.
What's a CNN?
We both work for FANGA companies in Silicon Valley, and side projects are very common. Both of us are also single (no family), and I'm not aware of personal issues on their side (not that it's not possible, of course).

It sucks because I trust them completely in terms of capability and judgment, so it really hurts that they weren't able to deliver (so far). But you're right that friends don't always work as business partners.
There are also (lower) weight limits on bikes, bikes could be significantly lighter (also recumbent)
> Mobile developers and front-end developers increasingly don't want to work on technologies that are perceived as outdated, or even to work on someone else's code

Backend folks do this too btw. I’ve seen adoption of Docker, Kubernetes, microservice architectures, Rust, etc. driven more by a desire to use the latest trends than the best tool for the job.
> Is there some reason the seller needs to have the buyer's contact info?

I have the same question, except I'll narrow the scope a little bit. In case the order is fulfilled by Amazon.com (FBA), is there any reason for the seller to have the buyer's contact or shipping information?

I know the seller has my information because I have a similar experience to TylerRobinson, except my gift card was only USD 5:

> The situation with Amazon reviews has become unbelievable. I recently purchased a $20 item with around 30,000 reviews, overwhelmingly positive. $20 was a reasonable market price for this item from any retailer.

> There was a card inside the box from the seller saying they’d send me a $15 gift card for posting a 5-star review and then forwarding them proof I had posted it to some gmail account. I followed the instructions, and like clockwork got $15 back on Amazon.
ah, remember the good old days of software licenses being locked against HWID's (hardware ids)?.. nostalgic lol
Same case in India as well. Here sellers bribe money to consumers, asking to write a five-star review. I have had sellers call me multiple times to leave a review. If you mention in the reviews that seller is harassing you for fake reviews and other reviews might be paid, then your review gets taken down.

saw this recently on Reddit too - https://old.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/p0cdeo/selle...
Maybe you could wear some sleek data glove, having gesture recognition by twitching your fingers 'just so' like described in 'Ancillary Justice' by Ann Leckie.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/sciencefiction/comments/2ige0f/im_a...

Or type on some sort of virtual

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorded_keyboard (Octima) combined with something like

[3] https://www.openstenoproject.org/plover/

combined with something like

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T9_(predictive_text)

or by 'grunting/subvocalizing' into some tiny pearl fitted to your neck/larynx (from the outside OFC).
I think there is a trend across the world of power centers becoming more authoritarian and punitive. It is en vogue to see it in China and point them out for it.

It is harder to look in the mirror and see something similar happening in the US. In the US, we superficially see government doing it (Snowden disclosures) and then we see corporations doing it separately (Facebook, Google ad tracking, etc...). However, I think government and tech giants are working closely together to act like China. This feels like another bud of this trend.

- Social credit system

- Loss of financial services (PayPal)

- Loss of access to social media (Facebook, Google, Apple, YouTube)

- Loss of access to travel related services (AirBnB, travel ban)

- Banning of material (Amazon)

- Control of media (owned by just a few major corporations who don't have to make money from the media... Comcast basically has a monopoly on land line Internet, AT&T has a very strong position on mobile, Disney has a strong position in films... they own CNN, NBC, and ABC)... EDIT: And let's not forget Fox

You can say all you want about freedom of association, but the effect is similar in China and the US. You are ostracized from the system.

Tech has lost its neutral carrier status and now is connected into a system that enforces consent. I wonder why? Are we being prepared for an economic war? Is this the natural evolution of power seeking power? Is this just a cycle of authoritarianism and liberalism?

P.S. I don't think groundswell upcry leading to cancellation means much. I am much more concerned when corporations do it. I just think they are much, much more powerful.
"Slippery Slope" is generally classified as an "informal fallacy".

It's not an example of defective logic, like the formal fallacies; it's a kind of persuasive argument that needs careful examination, because it may or may not be applicable in specific circumstances.
I think you could measure it. You could estimate or determine the percentage of marriages that end in divorce every year. You could to control for other factors such as recessions and see if the percentage of divorces is greater after 2009/2010 when Facebook became popular.
I've seen people accept the refund and then edit the review to not only make it clear that the product is shit, that the seller is refunding products for good reviews.
Indiana Jones and the Street Snack of Bangalore. Kid getting ready to take bite of snack, then, "This belongs in a museum." Cue theme song.
What's with the greek characters?
I've got to disagree with you. I've got a Tesla. Maintenance costs going into 2 years have been tire rotations. I guess I'll see in years 3-5, but I have a VW of about the same vintage and it's required coolant system repairs (thankfully under warranty), oil and other fluid changes, brakes are coming up. I don't really expect to see anything like that in the Tesla unless there is suspension wear/tear and then eventually things like the power windows, etc.

Interesting that other car manufacturers are requiring maintenance of their electric cars. I haven't hear that before. Sounds like legacy businesses maintaining their legacy business models.
The reason everyone is focusing on the technical aspects is because most people will evaluate it as it is planned to be, and not as what it could become. This is probably because, at any time, users can switch from Apple to Android in an upgrade cycle - so while perhaps 99% of users are fine with this CSAM scanner in its current state, if they expand its usage to something bad then those 99% that stayed can once again evaluate if they still value the hardware enough to keep it with the new status quo; therefore, evaluating it as it is in its current state will help people reading make the best personal decisions and the details will help with context if/when they do expand usage of this system.
"If there are any particular changes I want the authors to do I put them in quotes. This wasn't in quotes." (atrettel, 2021)

This is a very subtle distinction and it sounds like being more explicit about it would have been a good idea.
Swimming rules have also been progressively eased to help keep the records falling. Flip turns in backstroke. Relay dives. More aggressive dive blocks. The new breaststroke kick. Lots of little thing mean constant trend, constant records dropping.
There's a video around where some young guys proudly show the studio Ghibli head some grotesque animations that they generated with machine learning, he calls it 'an insult to life itself'. They hang their heads in shame. I really feel this too when I come across people crowing about how they made GPT spew out similar grotesqueries. It seems to be mocking what I am and do as a human.
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ebay uses an extremely invasive persistent tracker that also port scans your LAN through your browser, port scans localhost, loads webgl, every media plugin, canvas, etc.

if you block any of this (a default uBlock origin is enough, easyprivacy list), you are flagged heavily as fraud.
Channels in Go
The Metaverse will emerge from the World Wide Web
'Consider the source' is not the same as an ad hominem: 'The source is unreliable therefore we should distrust the information' vs 'The information is false because the source has bad credentials'.
The date will probably leave, so why would people "on a date" with iCloud Photos stay?
And that you are lucky with the file not being corrupted on crash.
It's not something that's confined to design/UX though.

Bring in a new CTO/tech lead and they'll tell you the current architecture is outdated or the code is spaghetti and needs a rewrite in [insert architecture/language doing the rounds on HN]. Bring in a new project manager and they'll want to introduce [insert Agile framework du jour]. Someone has been hired for presumably a lot of money, and if they just go "meh, it's fine, we just need to tidy things up a bit here and there" people might question why they were hired for a lot of money.
There are already some impressive models that can render animations at higher framerates, for example DAIN[0] and RIFE[1].

DAIN video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2i6FXVjNT0

RIFE video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqtqmP46LaA

[0] https://github.com/baowenbo/DAIN

[1] https://github.com/hzwer/arXiv2020-RIFE
First, please reconsider whether there is really a problem. I don't mean to recheck the fearmongering articles, I mean to think fundamentally about 1) the real history of earth with respect to CO2 and the climate and 2) what can actually be known about cause and effect in complex systems.

Is the climate changing? Of course, trivially true. It would be far more remarkable to find any physical system that wasn't changing.

Is the climate changing in any unprecedented way? I don't think so. For context, look at the graph on http://scotese.com/climate.htm All but the last few pixels are, of course, before the possibility of human influence, and we clearly see the temperature varying between 10 and 25C. We've been in what Scotese calls the "ice box" for all of human history. What would you expect to happen? I'd expect it to warm up. What else would it do?

That's temperature. What about CO2? Humans are thought to have added about 100 ppm over about a century, from around 300 to around 400. Not that long ago, though, CO2 ppm was twice what it is now. Not that long ago, it was 10x what it is now. The earth at that time was a jungle teeming with life.

We're often told that CO2 level are dangerously high, when in fact CO2 is almost as low as it's ever been in all of earth's history. Have you ever heard of a dangerous low CO2 ppm? It's about 150, at which apparently plant respiration fails. It seems we have been much much closer to cataclysm from low CO2 than from high.
> Personally, I see it as a misnomer and a way to create an other. Note how you rarely if ever hear white Americans referred to as European American.

It also creates the confusing situation of having white Americans from Africa ;)

> I also feel you missed my point. I'm not saying "Black" is rude, I'm saying the term "blacks" is rude.

Thanks, though at least Wikipedia uses the term very liberally, and there are several sources cited that use the term as well, including modern ones.
As an iOS user who has experienced some of these same issues, I can assure you that nobody at Spotify cares about my platform's app experience either.

The "continuing to play audio after bt disconnect" is particularly obnoxious to me, and has been happening for something like 5 years now. The latest update has trouble just scrolling through my entire Library, because why would anyone have more than a few dozen followed artists!?!?! (I have a couple hundred, and the latest update forced artists, playlists, and albums all to list together into one enormous muddle in Library).
Most people don't. I think many simple things in probability are surprisingly unintuitive.
Newpipe is a good option too.
Secure?

"Everything Old is New Again: Binary Security of WebAssembly"

https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity20/presentat...

Other research papers are bound to appear as the security community finally starts looking into WebAssembly security claims.

Marketing is everything.
Cool results and pretty nice formulation (note the page’s emphasis on “no neural net”; see paper/poster link for more). The group can probably make some dewatered versions of NOAA Ocean Expedition videos to show off to the wider Internet.

Patent note is a bit disappointing, but what can I do but respect the author’s decision?
It’s pretty rare for printed links to show the protocol. This should be forgiving of text that looks like a link not just https. Basically if you can paste it in the browser bar and go to the url it should support that. I’m sure there is a regex rule for this.
A good domain-specific language is much easier to read than a general-purpose language that forces you to continually restate the basics of the problem. But defining and then learning that DSL are time investments. If you find yourself working in a tarpit that rewrites everything every year or two, they can’t trust that the investment will get a chance to pay off before they throw it away.

But I at least want to master the most powerful general-purpose language they’ll let me use, because that investment will keep paying off until I find one that’s better still.
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> no one under 50 has really witnessed it in their adult life

The inflation rates aren't too bad, but $10k can't get you a (very lowend) new car anymore, like it did when I graduated. Speaking of graduation, looking ahead to college prices for my kid, sticker prices are easily the price of a whole 4 year degree when I went for every year.

If we include my childhood, arcade games used to be a quarter; the last arcade I was in, even Pac-Man was 50 cents, let alone the dollar or two dollar games that were more modern.
More like a Colecovision that used a Z80 CPU.
And so many free podcast apps have been around for over a decade, demonstrating that there are many simple ways to play podcasts right. But I guess they can't get basic music navigation and library curation right either, and that seemed to work pretty well in 2005.
That's the nature of a full time job. As it is, it's the best option for me. There's a lot of companies that make $10k/month but pay $30k/month in salaries. Thanks, VCs. But if there were a lower barrier to finding early stage VCs, starting a startup might be a better option.

But consider that you might be one of the few taking 1000 Imaginary coins after tax. Most people bring home 10 Imaginary Coins a month, or even negative. 1000 Imaginary Coins is the total compensation for most forms of labor.

A fair payment is when everyone in an organization can make ends meet with only one household job. Both of the people in a couple should also not need to work - if two people are too poor to have two kids, is it really a developed nation? Things were better in the past.

And when they can fully focus on their work. They shouldn't be engaging in side gigs. If you're a janitor, your goal should just be cleaning better and you should be satisfied financially and career-wise by cleaning up. A janitor shouldn't have to drive Uber at night to make ends meet. Japan seems to do this well - people find satisfaction and mastery in small things like cleaning fish and working at factories.

Though the other question to ask is are we profiting off this "slavery"? The $1 meals. The clean floors. How many have sacrificed their dreams for us to have high fructose corn syrup?
You seem to be talking about bullshitting or posturing that more knowledgeable people find offensive. But asking a dumb question isn't like that. It might be annoying, but doesn't really anger people quite the same as pretending to know something you don't.
The OP is asking how to use their skills to support the cause. What do academics and public statements have to do with this?
I mean in cases like that, unions often just constrain supply artificially. But that just creates a new problem, in that people who want to fill a role and are capable of filling a role can't necessarily fill a role that the company would be happy to give them if not for the union saying that this individual is locked out from filling the role.
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Sure. Though, it’s not of much use if it is not documented.
Nope. Nuclear can’t save us: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27835924

Well, unless you’re talking about fusion, which, at this point, truly is a “magical” solution.
It's nice to see comments that actually talk about unionizing.

> It's all well and good for the commenters here to say that dream jobs will often have hard conditions, but that doesn't necessarily have to be so if we have government or union enforced labour conditions that aren't predatory.

Well said!
> As of late, in the past year or so, I forget the actual timeline, I've noticed a certain direction the overall tone of the comments and voting have taken.

I've noticed the same thing. It's unsettling.

I haven't always agreed with the HN consensus on things, but until quite recently that consensus seemed to be honest and well-intentioned.
The author of this piece, Kevin Drum on 7/15/19 - "Reactionary American whites, as always, won’t give up their power unless it’s taken from them....Liberals need to be as Lincolnesque as possible in this endeavor, but we also need to be Lincolnesque in our commitment to winning America’s latest race war."

My point - that kind of extreme rhetoric, borderline sociopathic, certainly racist, is behind much of America's "rising rage".
A lot of the "principles" behind Newspeak are bollocks, from a linguistic point of view. For example there's nothing intrinsically less expressive in an agglutinative typology (e.g. "doubleplusungood" instead of "really, really bad"); and everything said about removal of meanings fail, once you remember that humans weave new meanings around on old words, in the same fashion as spiders weave new webs on old trees.

I don't blame Orwell for that though. He was not talking about Linguistics; he was trying to highlight a political issue - words being politically engineered, to gather support for outrageous ideas, that would be not supported otherwise; that was as much of an issue in his times as it is now. And Newspeak works really well to illustrate that.
Apparently "haze figuring" is a tortured phrase but "fog computing" is a term of art, despite searches for the former returning many pages containing the latter. So maybe 'fog computing' is a hybrid.