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The JVM does way more than Webassembly, completely different runtime characteristics. Webassembly is not attempting to be or do anything near what the JVM does.

Webassembly was designed for sandboxing untrusted code in a webbrowser, giving native like performance and limited functionality.

It just so happened the same characteristics for running untrusted code in the browser work really well for usecases people use AWS Lambda for etc. You have small lightweight applications that have limited system access you need to binpack and have fast startup / low overhead.

Webassembly/WASI isn't replacing the JVM/.NET, it's providing an alternative for specific use cases, running untrusted code in isolated environments that is fast and light weight.
That's every competitor I've ever heard of in every event with weightclasses (where more weight is an advantage. Jockies try to rapidly lose weight.)
Yes, power consumption, and, relatedly, heat dissipation. You'd probably get unusable battery life in a laptop with a desktop CPU, and need a lot of fans to cool it.
> But I guess my point would be that there is a trade-off when you try to take a specialized gadget and make it more multi-purpose. The iPods and MP3 players of old did not have wireless-accessible storefronts, for example: you plugged them into a computer and pulled down your library, podcasts, etc

But I don't see a trade-off these days. The iPods and MP3 did not have wireless radios. These devices HAVE wireless radios, and not only that, they're constantly using them. You're paying the cost in weight, size, battery life. It's just the company doesn't want to pay the corresponding cost in software.

> And this is just me personally, but I don't think it's that big of a deal to pull out my smartphone and buy a book on the Kobo app, then click 'Sync' on my Kobo to connect to WiFi and bring it over.

Then why do you read your eBooks on a eReader rather than the smartphone? Whatever answer you give here, same thing applies to why I wouldn't want to bring/use another device.
I fully agree with the article. One thing not mentioned, however probably assumed to be given: domain knowledge. A domain expert using simple methods will probably beat any decent ML model because they are able to define strong features.
Smokers are not addicted to nicotine per se. Your craving is towards the monoamine oxidase inhibitors in tobacco smoke.

I take it you have tried alternatives containing only nicotine, but they just weren’t the same?

Note that successfully quitting smoking usually means quitting coffee, too, since coffee contains the exact same monoamine oxidase inhibitors.
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I've had great meals at places that weren't in the Guide. But I've never had a bad meal at a restaurant that was in the Guide. Given that there are far more restaurants in the world than one person could visit in a lifetime, that makes the Guide pretty useful.
Yes, this is the third paragraph of the article.
Given all that Germany went through the past century (albeit if much of that was self-inflicted), it's hardly surprising that "prepper culture" will find fertile ground.
Psychedelic therapy, unless done right, would create more thoughts and narrow the aperture of any framework or safety net. It seems like a nuclear option in this context (but I’m interested in being corrected on that).
> Apple is the $2tn elephant in the corner, mostly silent and serenely indifferent to the news cycle. It just ships - and it ships market-leading products, with metronomic precision, at massive scale, on a decade-long strategic roadmap.

Put it like that, that’s just so impressive.
If we accept that, then as I suggested in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28613379, the whole project of rating restaurants on any kind of scale is doomed. Do you really think there's no sense in which the entire McDonalds menu is worse than a particular main course at Le Cinq? That the whole idea of Michelin stars is entirely nonsense? That food quality reduces entirely to variety?

I was attempting to separate out the "variety" aspect, which as you say cannot be evaluated in isolation and thus makes no sense to print in a guide, by proposing long time scales. Would you really argue that nothing is left once you factor out variety?
>If you fail to do your duties, you can (or should) be fired, that's of course legal and reasonable by any measure.

It's legal because it was put into the legal code. It's not, again, some physical law.

For example, even if you "failed to do your duties", you still couldn't just be fired in many places, because there are extra protections and steps (and costs to the employeer).

>Any arbitrary means that the government provides for beyond that is a 'positive right'

Only if you have internalized that an automatic firing is the default.
Or this one: https://github.com/joeycastillo/Sensor-Watch
There are some stuff that is more robust but the clarification is hard with classical methods or even small models. Though we're getting better at small models. There's different biases in the models too. But I wouldn't expect classical methods to do well on ImageNet. Though ImageNet has a lot of issues...
Such a great concept..installed. Don't know where to find an invite or anything.
If it’s reproducible, it stops being single examples. All your other sentences are variations of “Man up”.

In our society, we are used to seeing people getting at least vocal support when things get hard, harassment at work, inability to ask for higher pay, etc. We just forget that, when it’s men, the advice is “Ok maybe work gave you trust issues, but have you tried to man up? Why would you expect support from a spouse if you, yourself, aren’t self-supported?”

It defeats the idea of “he for she, she for he.”
Changing a connector is not trivial if you have hundreds of millions of customers and a massive ecosystem of third-party vendors, each with their own roadmap.

Of course, Apple could pull it off if they really wanted. They’ve done it it with iPads. But please don’t frame it as customer trolling. We’re better than that here.
Yes, it's mostly power consumption and efficiency, with the puny heatsinks found in most laptops, you can't cool significant amounts of power without throttling. Having the CPU on the motherboard also allows for a thinner assembly. I don't think having a socketed CPU just for the sake of it would have been a good choice here.
I have a monitor that acts as USB hub and power source, everything is plugged into it and then one single cable connects it and all of that and power to my company issued MacBook. Every meeting room used to have hdmi and DP and thunderbolt connectors but no more because every company issued laptop is now capable of thunderbolt (MacBook or dell precision series if you opt in for Linux)
It is likely Juul pods contain monoamine oxidase inhibitors just like natural tobacco. They could even have been added to the mix.

Big tobacco knows, but they won’t tell you.
It's not just a status symbol, it's also a fantastic laptop. I honestly don't find it reasonable to recommend normal people anything other than an M1 Mac at this point.
A mini-tower with SSD + 2 x HD and three 27" monitors, mechanical keyboard and trackball. Running Debian v10.10.

I go for weeks without turning on my MBP for those few programs that have no Linux equivalents.
But the point of ML to begin with is likely often to appeal not by a better product but by appealing to investors or managers. If you create a better product but it doesn’t have “AI” in it then it failed in that aspect. What’s needed is a set of things that can be sold as AI or ML but isn’t.
That's right. Even the amount of preppers would only be an indicator of subjective stability. It could as well be a kind of new apocalyptic religion.

On a sidenote, the talk of social collapse is a popular propaganda theme of the extreme right.
That makes sense. I bought only a single ebook from Amazon and getting it to be usable on my device (tconverting the mobi to epub) was so annoying that I will not buy a single ebook from Amazon again. In cases without alternative dealers there's always z-lib. Not reading the book is also always an option
Neat idea, but I'd bet it was a completely native decision, maybe forced on some poor naval architect by a grandee who didn't understand the implications of the order. Then again, there's no proof one way or another.
Nobody's asking Google to do something but rather to NOT do something. Hey Google, do NOT ban the pro-democracy app from your app-store. Google, you don't need to do anything, just don't do something that suppresses free speech.

Google is taking explicit action to suppress democracy, by removing a pro-democracy app from their app-store.

What will they do next? Remove all news critical of Putin from Google's search-results?
Our collective memory is short. It is within our lifetimes that Germany was split between West Germany (BRD) and East Germany (DDR). The article describes the collapse of DDR, and while it was a softer landing than the rest of the soviet bloc, it was still a collapse of a state.

There are many examples within the collective memory of generations alive today. Yet we don’t seem to learn as much as you’d think we should. Those that don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it?
Well, the alternative is an aggressive full-page signup nag that intentionally breaks product functionality when logged out -- an approach used to various degrees by Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, Reddit, and others. Is that really preferable?
Fortunately, as Wikipedia explains, most people do not share the illogical convention you are advocating, though presumably most of the people you know do.

(...please God don't let him ask me about hotdogs...)
> A&W tried introducing a 1/3 lb burger, and it failed horribly because the average consumer couldn't understand that 1/3 is greater than 1/4.

Why then they didn't come up with a 1/5 lb burger?
Methinks your view of the US is way too based on what you read/watch on the internet.

It’s no different than the UK. I could say I don’t want to live there because of rampant alcohol abuse, random crime in London, racial strife from refugees, crazy politicians, insane media who focus too much on some old family with crowns.

But I know that’s not an accurate representation of the UK.
I do a bit of Kotlin on Android. Two decent sized native apps. We do no Java, but use some Java libraries.

I like Kotlin enough. But I don’t love it. Like Swift (and maybe Python yet), it’s a language that tacks on more stuff every release in interest of grabbing yet another programming model niche. It’s like a Swiss Army knife with a _lot_ of blades and gadgets and tools. It’s like a VC funded start up that throws features at the wall to see what sticks and placates.

I want my languages to be built on simple unifying principles. Kotlin’s principles often seem to be:

- we get rid of boilerplate . . . when ever we can, but not really consistently. Removing boiler plate trumps consistency in code communication

- you have a rising idea over there in your ecosystem? we will add it in ours

- by keeping our documentation very simple (nee spartan), we can claim our language is simple

This year it is coroutines, tomorrow it will be sealed classes, or who knows.
Spend two weeks adding some hidden worthless token "feature" no one will ever need or use that relies on AI. Then you can say your product is powered by AI. Boom, done.
That's my thinking, yes.
With regards to Software, SAP is still german and runs the worlds biggest companies
Their covid pass has only a temporary recognition of those that have had the virus already.

Which seems illogical given that natural immunity has been shown to be better protection

"In the middle of August, our country added a fourth way to get the Opportunity Pass: "a sufficient level of antibodies" based on serological immunoassay for COVID-19 IgG antibodies or total antibodies test. Valid for 60 days after a test."
It works okay if you cook while parked. But coffee might be more forgiving.
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All my algorithms are O(1).
It's an interesting article and worth a read but the headline is straight up garbage.

"The earth is not as round as we think. Just ask flat earthers".

"The vaccines are not as good as we think. Just ask the anti-vaxxers".

It's basically a story about this one person.
I've been outside the UK for a few years, but when I was there £80k for a senior in London was fairly standard, and I had recruiters emailing me for £100k roles. That's the pre-tax salary; getting some extra compensation or perks would be somewhat expected, but not at US levels.

Outside London it varies a lot though... I'm from the South West and £50k would be a good salary there. But that's no different from some places in the US. If you live in a small town, of course there is less opportunity.

But most people who know their worth become contractors. I've had to work with people on £500/day who I wouldn't even trust to run the tests properly. Selling yourself as a "senior <insert hot language of the day> developer" you can easily command a few hundred more. And then there's fintech which goes even higher.

In the UK there isn't that much difference in security from being an employee vs a contractor (you still have state health insurance at the end of the day). Even without the higher rates, the tax benefits alone make it very beneficial, which is why IR35 regulations have been brought in. I know someone who has a company car (Porsche Taycan) which they use to drive to the company yatch...
Honestly? I think many people do. Maybe not specifically peppers but other fringe groups. Though sometimes we pretend fringe groups are far larger than they actually are for long enough that they stop being fringe.
Looks like your link was mangled into uselessness by Google?
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I used to use Caps Lock when rewriting my sloppy SQL for production. But VIM makes it very easy to 'uppercase' a word with `gUiw`.
What you all guys mean by Kindle? I have one for like a decade and I don’t get it. It’s not a strong brand of itself like iPhone (which is also smartphone).

All I can tell about it is that it’s a mediocre reader and that’s it. I don't upgrade it to any other reader because it just works, so I’m going to keep it till it won’t.
Click bait. Just because there are preppers in Germany that doesn't mean it is not a stable country.
I believe most restaurants menus do adhere to this convention.
> 'Preppers', by definition, are those who have decided the world is unstable and on the brink of collapse.

Not by definition. Maybe in practice.

You might be a 'prepper' even if you think the chance of society collapsing is only 0.1% because you think it's a prudent hedge against a highly unlikely worst-case scenario. This might be rational from a personal perspective if you have enough wealth to burn such that 'prepping' for this 0.1% situation only costs 0.01% of your net worth.
This comment reeks of Americentrism. Germans are perfectly capable of coming up with their own insanities.
"HackerNews articles are not as well moderated as we think, just ask the commenters"
Aren’t you a representation of a subjective experience?
This is a rabbit hole that I followed as well. There's some good articles if you search for it.

Auto doesn't make total sense to me, but it seems originally the Romans had only the letters we know as capitals, and none of the extra characters like semicolon.

IIRC sometime in the middle ages lower case letters were added, but it's not clear to me why and how it ended up getting a bunch of different rules (eg German capitalises nouns but in English it's only proper nouns).
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Scripting would be nice, but unless you're deleting things it feels extremely safe to me, since you're working on (and retain) snapshots the whole way; if anything ever does go wrong just roll back:)
ahhh thanks :) Will do !
Of course a laptop sold in 10s of millions will have more problem than a laptop sold 1000x less...
I guess I just don't use my laptop the way you do. I have 3 USB-C ports (and a micro SD slot), and that's it. Right now I have a power cable plugged into one, and my USB-C Yubikey plugged into another. I'll very occasionally use a USB network interface, but it's USB-C. I've replaced any micro-USB to USB-A cables that I still need with micro-to-C cables (I even have a mini-to-C cable for a serial converter breakout board). I don't consider this replacement much of a waste, as I've mostly just replaced them when the cables wear out or break.

I do have a USB-A wired mouse, but I only use that when I'm first-person gaming (not often, maybe 3-4 times a month). But for that I just have the A-to-C adapter permanently attached to the mouse, so it's not like I need to go find an adapter when I want to plug the mouse in.

Only other thing is HDMI, but I keep one of those white Apple dongles I got with a work laptop in the drawer under my TV (I probably pull it out once every 6 months or so). I don't use an external monitor for the most part, but for that I have another dongle permanently attached to the cable plugged into the monitor, so, again, that's not an inconvenience.

When I'm traveling, it's really nice that I only have to bring a single charger that charges both my laptop and phone. I'll usually also bring a Chromecast with me so I don't have to deal with cables at all if I want to watch something on a hotel/Airbnb TV. But that's pretty much all I need.

I don't think I'm "out of touch", though I certainly allow for the truth that other people have different needs than I do.
Big Wind probably appears in the movie. It is two MiG jet engines strapped to a T-34 frame: https://www.badassoftheweek.com/bigwind
> You're missing the point. If the AI is consistently penalizing drivers for looking in the mirror, then it'll affect them all equally and not be unfair. If it treats some drivers worse than others, why didn't they mention that instead of leaving us to assume that there really are drivers who are never penalized for looking in the mirror?

They did mention it: not every driver has the AI installed.

Also you’re assuming the bonuses are awarded like prizes to the top performers. So if everyone is penalised equally then the same people still get awards. My impression was those bonuses were awarded to anyone who passes specific milestones. So even if everyone is penalised equally it’s still unfair to everyone.

> TFA even points out drivers making excuses for not wearing a seatbelt. If they won't even take personal responsibility for their own illegal actions, of course their opinions on more subtle things like following distances aren't reliable.

Yes, that is a fair argument. I interpreted that in a more charitable way saying “they’re acknowledging some bad practices on their side so at least trying to meet the AI developers half way”. But I will admit your interpretation is just as, if not more so, plausible.

Even so, that doesn’t justify being ignored to by Amazon and the AI developers. Any new tech needs debugging in the field. And this is more so true with AI and complex problems like driving assistants than it is in most other software specialties.

That’s the part of the article that stinks the most and the original point I was making yesterday. I couldn’t give a rats ass who is to blame because the biggest fault lies with the company for not working with the users to ensure the software is performing correctly. And this is especially important when people’s income are being directly effected by the software too!
Also it’s perfect to edit 16:9 video with toolbars
I usually think if the business cannot sustain once the idea is copied, it's not a good business idea.

Maybe it's fine to continue as a hobby project, but for business, if it cannot sustain without a significantly large market share, or have too competitive environment, better to work on other problems.
Yep. If you look into what these people believe in you will notice it is largely just a rehash of US conspiracies.
> and give it away

But who would pay for this? At the end, the States can only take the money in the pocket of its citizens, present or future.
> having all the events arrive whenever they feel like is one of the most frequent irritations of web-based platforms for me

How does VSCode handle this?
Because I’ve never had an issue typing on it, I’ll definitively have a look to the repo, but does someone know?
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If it isn't symbolic, I'd guess the swimmer had just decided to abandon all but the most important piece of his kit. The helmet would also afford him a bit of safety if he stuck his head above water to see what's going on and where he is. Could also be a cuir-bouilli helmet/hat which I assume wouldn't restrict his swimming to the extent of bronze or iron.
Actually, I would say that their history is an argument against the case that they are unstable.

The fact that Germany had such a massive political and existential crisis that led them to war and genocide is still very much present in their memory. National pride is still something that is quite frowned upon (it would make people very uncomfortable say, if you walk around the street with a German flag and it's not clearly due to a football game).

On the other hand, I would say countries that have not yet had any cultural or existential crisis in the last few hundred years as a nation are more at risk of collapse. Unless the country and culture is constantly changing and evolving and its population are similarly keen to routinely update the status quo, at some point it will fall out of sync with, people will get upset and wonder why things aren't like the good old days, find arbitrary reasons for this (identification of perpetrators and allocation of blame) and the upheaval will begin.
Extremely clickbait title, but I guess it has done its job considering we are now here talking about the article.
Parent is saying that bit-flips are not necessarily generated by cosmic rays, not that they don't exist.

RowHammer is a good example - bit flips which can be triggered through specific memory access patterns.
Well, you need the boogie man if you're the dog and your goal is to keep your country under control.

But if the tail gets ideas about wagging you? And your populace demands you eliminate the boogie man threat with all means at hand, because you've spent decades inculcating hatred in them and blaming ills on the man?

Well... better the boogie man's head than yours on the chopping block.
I’ve looked extensively at Peplink devices. They aren’t exactly crystal clear as to which devices actually support SpeedFusion and which ones don’t. And they have multiple additional features which are not supported on all devices that do actually support the baseline SpeedFusion product.

They’re also not very transparent on how you can buy the bigger devices that have like six or eight interfaces. You can buy a Balance 30 device on Amazon for $1k, but that’s a low-end device for them and only supports two Ethernet interfaces plus one optional USB interface. If you want anything more, you have to go through a licensed dealer, all of whom have “contact us for consulting and pricing” rates.

They’re also limited to 200Mbps on their SpeedFusion Cloud service. If you want more than that, you need to get their custom software image to run it on your own hardware or VM somewhere, or you pay them for a dedicated host in their cloud.

I haven’t looked at any of the other main hardware vendors in the SD-WAN space. I haven’t been able to find out as much information about them.
Have you tried it? Your first few packs are very enjoyable until you need to smoke to feel normal.
I just took another fresh look at it and on the surface the syntax looks really attractive.
That cap can be increased if necessary it’s just a default, the reason to have non-zero cost ids to combat spam and accrue reputation makes sense.

I don’t agree with CY’s NRX politics (or much of Thiel’s for that matter - I think he was influenced by CY), but that’s unrelated to the merits of the tech and CY left the project in 2019.