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It's ubiquitous because it is popular. If it wasn't popular, nobody would want to use, everyone would hate it, and Evil Corp Incorporated would ride in on the Savior Horse and give everyone the remedy to javascript.

But no. Instead of all that, javascript spread beyond the browser. It's in my TV (plain html/js + Wasm), on my desktop in the form of an IDE and as a VPN (at the very least the UI part of it), on SpaceX's Dragon Capsule (which itself is in Space).

JavaScript, along with HTML are the among the few of the most scrutinized and battle tested technologies ever. Billions of QAs ranging across the whole world, ranging from completely incapable users to sophisticated teams of security engineers bash at it tirelessly and without sleep. And this thing holds.

I get it, it has the shitty parts, but it also evolves, becoming better and better. And most importantly - it's one standard. No branches, no perlisms. Just one organism evolving. It's really great when you come see it through the prejudice.
Yeah, there's some problems with the approach. But I guess if you had an old one, you could install some open source software, or replace the whole computer. I assume it would cost a few hundred bucks at most. It's peanuts compared to engine, or in electric car, battery work.

The main board on an iphone is taking a really small part of the whole nowadays. https://guide-images.cdn.ifixit.com/igi/JtBACGbyZcYSdBfL.hug... Besides maybe some machine vision things, the computing in a car seems to have very low performance requirements.

Sensors, actuators and controllers etc are another thing then, but they're different.
Rivian does seem like the real deal. I first noticed them when prototype versions of their SUV truck were used for the recent Apple TV+ series Long Way Up [1], where Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman ride electric motorcycles from Ushuaia to Los Angeles, with a production team following in those Rivian cars. The crew absolutely loves the Rivians, and as far as I remember, they only experience a minor hiccup.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Way_Up
The joy gets sucked out of life when people go crazy about trying to shut down other people's jokes because of political correctness.
> Although the levels of individual pesticides are within legal limits, activists fear the combination of multiple chemicals could be particularly damaging to people’s health.

This is the important part. Activists' fear should not dictate health policy. That should be done by scientists.

This organization, Pesticide Action Network, is opposed to GMOs and other modern farming techniques that kicked off the green revolution, seemingly on principle more than anything else. Consumers absolutely should be vigilant, because industrial food production has a bad track record. But with 7 billion humans to feed and counting, it is not realistic to roll back the green revolution.
apologies for introducing a new phrase into an emotional conversation. I didn't mean "is not a crime" in the literal sense of the word. It's just a phrase used to mean things other than criminal activity are causing someone to receive attention like this.
Insider trading by executives is pervasive – research
Most browsers have a “Smooth scrolling” option. Have you tried toggling that?

I use a desktop. With a very expensive and ergonomic mouse with a notched wheel (as opposed to a free-spinning wheel). One notch - Scroll 3 lines instantly. No delay. No lag. No animation. The way it should be.
Believe me, things would be _a lot_ worse if there were no nukes and superpowers could go at one another. We're talking 100x the casualties. Most of the violent deaths in the 20th century were the fault of the governments, one way or another. The only reason they don't do that anymore is it'd be self-destructive.
Clubhouse has a truly degenerate culture. I used to panel on quantum computing discussions. Every quantum-related discussion now veers towards consciousness related claptrap. Now it’s all vaccine denialist, crypto/nft scammers… etc. Credit to the guy who claimed that “using quantum mechanics to affect your life trajectory is a privilege.” I think he might be sincere. Hard to tell with most of these people.

It’s honestly always had a degenerate culture, though. I remember a discussion I dropped in on about a startup for “bringing boutique liquor to space to heighten the luxury experience”
Yeah, this won’t be happening.
I thought Nissan Leaf had poor reputation for bad battery management.
If you have something open and better, it will prevail over closed products

The problem is that "better" is being defined by the companies spreading the marketing propaganda about their products, and that has an unfortunate effect on the perception of the users. It's sad that most of the population would simply take it at face value if a company told them something was "better", but if you realise that making users unquestioning and under their control is ultimately a great way to extract more $$$ from them, it all makes sense.
> I don't think that "just be better than the trillion dollar incumbent" is a reasonable starting point for any healthy market.

I'm not proposing this solution because I think it's easy. I'm proposing it because I think it's the only one that has any chance of actually fixing the problem long term. Government fiat won't fix it; it will make it worse, the same way government fiat in general makes problems worse, not better.
Exactly. Serialization, which enables tracking and blocking of parts from stolen devices, works best alongside making OEM parts readily available at-cost to third party repair services.
Wild speculation here but the days of centralized governance (banking) are numbered. Technology and communications are bringing sweeping social reforms to all the things. Cryptocurrencies are another step in that direction. Sure there will be mad attempts at regulation and control in the death spasms of centralized banking. Is it good or bad? Time (years) will tell. But one thing we know for sure is that it will change.
Nvidia actively prevents open source support through firmware signing.
Thanks. I think your page could sell that better.
Breaking Problems Down
Heuristics are used. For example, memory accesses relative to the stack pointer will be assumed to be thread-local, as the stack isn’t shared between threads. And that’s just one of the tricks in the toolbox. :-)

The result of those is that the expensive atomics aren’t applied to all accesses at all on hardware that doesn’t expose a TSO memory model.
Amazon partnering with existing pharmacies seems like a very plausible step to me. Amazon storing inventory from those pharmacies in a single location also sounds like a plausible step to me. And then that's comingling that requires me to trust the absolute worst partner. With good reason to worry that these invisible companies might not have the best standards.

Which step do you think isn't plausible?

And I'm not saying I won't trust it, I'm saying I'd have to research it more and keep extra vigilant for any changes.
A Linux phone could run WhatsApp if the Linux distro was implemented in such a way that it could run Android apps (remember Android is basically just a runtime on top of the Linux kernel) and since AOSP is FOSS this is very doable and legal.

How commercially successful it'd be is still a different story, but it could run WhatsApp.
Re-Write or Strangler
It was a joke on the Java installer saying Java runs on 3 billion devices for ages, not sure if you got it or not.
if you absolutely don't want your iPhone broken into, don't use FaceID at all; this case of "disables FaceID" in that case would be your best friend.
As an employer, I would never hire someone who goes berserk and attacks others for perceived slights. Work is hard and it is much more fun when you can get along and joke with people you work with. If you feel like you are walking on eggshells all the time, no one has any fun.
when I hear "it will take a while" type of comment, I take it with a grain of salt. In BC Canada, our health or public health officer said in May of 2021 "..and there is no way that we will recommend inequities be increased our use of things like vaccine passports for services, for public access here in British Columbia" within 4 months she's implemented it.
There is only one way to make documention works. This is to have everyone following the same standards. This is not enough of course.

You can have different people using different tools to write it, but all those documents needs to be referenced at the same place and be searchable at least by title. There is no magic tool this is first a people/process problem

If your org has several place to find it and no strategy. Then the first step is to have a documentation strategy. That will not solve all your issues, but without it you are going to be very limited
This is an area where I'm torn. Should I be buying only organic produce or should I be spending the same money and energy on eating less sugar and more of any kind of produce?

There is a tradeoff... with young kids and a full-time job the time I can spend buying or preparing meals is pretty limited. I don't fully understand the magnitude of the risks of, say, eating too much vs. eating too much pesticide.

I'm also kind of irrationally mad at organizations like the Environmental Working Group; as far as I can tell their "dirty dozen list" comes from taking public domain FDA data about toxins in food, dividing the guideline safe amounts by about 10 arbitrarily, and publishing that the public numbers are higher than their (apparently made up?) lower safety thresholds. I just don't understand the science here -- how much extra death are they saying I'm incurring by eating non organic produce and what are the error bars?
That sucks. I hate when companies do this. How would they even know what kind of client is talking to their servers?
> Even if you cared enough to say no, all that would happen is that Facebook would pay somebody else to work for them.

Serious question: Do you vote? Because this argument seems like people who say “my vote doesn’t matter, it’s just one vote out of millions.”

It’s true that at the individual level, one vote basically never makes the difference, but elections are won and lost. In the same way, if one person says no, maybe it will barely make a difference, but teams are made of more than one person.
> Even if we do it, the resulting reduction in fossil consumption here will lower their price and cause them to be burned in developing nations.

What if all of the developed nations agreed to impose punitively high tariffs on all imports from developing nations that did this?
Ask HN: Dealing with frustrating newly-senior engineer?
I know of an engineer who recently obtained the "senior" title. Though they are talented, they lack the experience that comes with many years of solving problems involving technology + people + process. As such, they sometimes make decisions that don't come from a place of seeing the 30k foot view. This is all normal and expected, and we were all once this person.

However, what doesn't seem normal and expected is the arrogance and friction that this person brings.

They argue incessantly, and (it seems) not always in good faith. Petty arguments, filled with "ha-ha gotchas" that are more about flexing what they think they know versus actually trying to find meaningful solutions. They over-optimize, spending endless time hurting readability and breaking abstractions to optimize code that will likely never need it. Their explanation? Matter-of-factly: "It's faster." Then they leave their esoteric over-optimized code undocumented for the next person who "should be able to just figure it out."

They frequently try to bond with people by shitting on popular projects, tools, or methods of doing things, without attempting to understand any of the justifications for why those methods made sense at the time, with the information that was available. It's all "trash" that elicits groans of disapproval and smirking and eye-rolling if it's not the latest, hottest shit. They talk with a shitty, pointed tone in their voice and make no effort to conceal it.

They've been the last hold-out on the team, when the rest of the team has aligned around a solution, because what was aligned around wasn't "their preference." They frequently have to be "overruled" because of their refusal to compromise, and make it loudly clear that they are being overruled when it happens.

I know that some of these concerns have been brought to this person's manager, but my sense of the outcome is that the manager is in a precarious position of trying to keep the team together and everyone getting along, so that forward progress is made. I'm honestly not sure what I expect from the manager. If I had it my way, this person would be let go. But they aren't, for whatever reason.

I need a strategy for communicating with this person. How do I persuade them to listen to other points of view? How do I prevent debates from devolving into petty gridlocks? I used to think that anyone could be reasoned with and compromise found, so long as everyone is acting in good faith, but this person challenges that belief. They have one way of seeing the world, and if something doesn't align with that, they don't budge. How do I minimize the damage?
I don’t know about all that, but clearly there is a difference between a business that sells clothes and a business that has imposed itself as a middleman in private social interactions between friends and family.
https://mobile.twitter.com/uuallan/status/143994441714246861...
These books really helped me:

https://rustwasm.github.io/docs/book/

https://rustwasm.github.io/docs/wasm-bindgen/

https://rustwasm.github.io/docs/wasm-pack/

I also enjoy Lin Clark's visual explanations of WebAssembly:

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/02/a-cartoon-intro-to-webasse...
There's common physiology for human colour perception: rods for brightness, cones for red-green-blue. Atop this are opponent colours: black-white, red-green, blue-yellow.
> Did I understand correctly: does this mean that I need to have a working Internet connection to install Win11 (non-"Pro"), hoping that my NIC works during the installation process?

That is my read on it. The guidance to "click the sign in options...to sign in with an offline account" worked for me in Win10 Home, but apparently not for 11 Home version (without any yet to be revealed work arounds)
The middle road is missed here.

There are two problems, long duration supplies of a chip on the same process, and the cost of making chips.

If the semiconductor companies can figure out an ASIC/FPGA type strategy that would allow any of the current chips in a car be produced "dynamically", then the semiconductor company could achieve their economies by just fabbing one design, and car companies could achieve longevity by getting commitments for production of that one design.

Xilinx recently made some steps in a new direction by producing what they called an "RF" SoC. Where RF stands for radio frequency. Basically it had all of the analog to digitial and digital to analog bits on the chip in addition to some FPGA fabric and some ARM AARCH64 cores. Its expensive and small quantity but I think it will turn out to be important in the long run as the vanguard of chips that are not 'type specific' at the time of manufacture.

Imagine a company that has the same basic FPGA architecture, packaged in a variety of automotive spec packages, with one-time programmability. That would reduce the number of SKUs considerably (basically by package type).
AFAIK, that’s only the case for the screen, and there’s a warning when swapping the rear camera.
Your shoes could have embedded RFID tags (perhaps originally intended as a payment/anti-theft method by the store you bought them from) that can be used to fingerprint/track you everywhere.
That one is quite interesting indeed.

And they use it for quantum computing research:

"One of the state-of-the-art optimizing quantum compilers is an open-source program called QUILC with a companion quantum computer simulator called the Quantum Virtual Machine. Both of these programs are written in 100% Common Lisp, and contain a total of around 50,000 lines of sophisticated, mathematical, data structure–heavy code. And that excludes the plethora of first-party dependencies.

Common Lisp is a fantastic language for developing these programs; it’s fast, stable, extremely flexible, and the developer experience is unmatched. But, both new and seasoned developers sometimes get tripped up and tangled in the web of complex data structures, and inadvertently introduce type errors that the relatively comprehensive test suite doesn’t catch. In addition, such developers heavily rely on documentation strings (“docstrings”) in order to discover what the probable inputs and outputs of the functions are, and those docstrings sometimes go stale.

Coalton’s aim is to allow us to reap the benefits of Common Lisp, and not have to rewrite 50,000 lines of tricky code in order to realize some of the benefits offered by statically typed functional programming languages."
https://coalton-lang.github.io/20211010-introducing-coalton/
Not a VC myself but we're on startup funding platform here so I encourage you, go pitch it.
“Oracle GitHub is being renamed to Oracle JavaZone(TM) to harmonise Oracle’s developer story under the Java(TM) brand.”
They've gained free SEO, traffic, and publicity from this HN thread alone.
Only if WhatsApp never activates SafetyNet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28731431
Very neat, thanks for sharing. The name sounds familiar, I'm sure I've seen it mentioned alongside BAT in conversations about tipping creators. How's the adoption rate so far? Is there a development roadmap?
If you consider the first amendment a mistake, you won't want to replicate it in the quasi-governmental institutions of the future
They're still around, most of them having landed in the Rationalist/LessWrong community along with Yudkowski.

And then some of them, like Anissimov, et al, moved onto the Post-Rationalist community, with a small percentage of those moving onto Neoreaction, and a small percentage of those moving onto radical Accelerationist politics.

I think what happened is that a lot of these bright-eyed and bushy-tailed youngsters who saw Singularity and/or radical life extension happening in their lifetimes eventually came to accept that they're not totally wrong, but they'll be long dead when it does.

There was a sort of demotivation that happened to push them into more tangible efforts, even some as prosaic as politics.
I have never seen a stat or survey that suggests that.
This is the classic innovators dilemma. The established players are afraid to cannibalize their more profitable existing product lines, which presents opportunities for new companies that don't have existing products to cannibalize.

That's probably why the markets are betting the way they are.

And the Bolt is great. Just make sure not to park within 50 feet of anybody else [1].

[1] https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1133604_gm-asks-chevy-b...
Note that I am the "OP" as in I posted the link to HN but I am not the author or the developer whose story this is about.

Regarding https, looks like the parent comment linked to the "www" version of their site. Their non-www version does have https:

https://6acegames.com

Not defending the author's cleanliness or shadiness, just pointing out the facts.
Note that I am the "OP" as in I posted the link to HN but I am not the author or the developer whose story this is about.
I’m not a biologist, but how I imagine it is that cancer is just evolution + entropy. We can obviously get a lot better at controlling it, but it will always be there because there’s always a way for one cell to go rouge and gobble up resources and make tons of copies to the detriment of the whole. Biology already puts tons of roadblocks in the way to this, and we can surely add more, but at the end of the day it’s such a huge incentive so things will go find the easier faster way to chemical equilibrium
This is what computing used to be. It wasn't bleak, and I would say it was a lot more interesting. Most of the retro computers that people remember with great fondness were like this.
Maybe, just maybe we should take a long hard look at just how fragile and easy to topple all of our supply chains are, and actually do something to build in more resilience, to better weather adverse conditions.

With how the climate is changing, we are only going to see more and more instability and disturbances to production and shipping in the future, due to climate refugees and unrest.

We've played a dangerous game of brinkmanship and now we're paying the price.
Yeah, reminds me of Niven's Puppeteer's "General Products".
Unless the iPhone 13 is different FaceID does work with genuine Apple parts. My wife and I have cracked lots of them. If Apple doesn’t have them in stock yet because it’s a new phone they will replace the phone. I’ve done it with and without AppleCare.
>BMW’s New Overspray-Free Paint Works Like an Inkjet Printer

Does it mean that it won't paint black if it's out of color cartridge ?
Intel publish a very thick optimization manual, which is a good help.

Compilers aren't great at using the real parameters of the chip (i.e. LLVM knows how wide the reader buffer is but I'm not sure if it actually can use the information), but knowing latencies for ISel and things like that is very helpful. To get those details you do need to rely on people like (the god amongst men) agner fog.
I'm switching to 10 LTSC (nb they renamed LTSB) 1809 this weekend to get ahead of the curve. Supported until January 2029. 11 came out six years after 10, so decent odds this can tide me over until 12.
Unfortunately they reduced their support commitment for the upcoming 10 LTSC 21H2 to five years from release, so the older version is the best you can do.

Also FWIW, Microsoft does kind of give you a choice to obtain 10 LTSC legitimately, it's just a pain in the ass since it's very deliberately not intended for consumers. Described here: https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2167558-explicit-inst...

I actually did it (using CDW, total cost US$319.15), in part because I'm a goody-goody I guess and in part because even if you can trust the ISO you got is good by verifying its checksum, god knows what the tool you use to bypass the copyright enforcement mechanism does.

If anyone reading this comment is interested in buying it, you should probably also know that the Open License volume purchasing program that the linked units are being sold under is getting discontinued in January 2022, so might want to decide whether to bite the bullet soon.
The Fed may possibly be more powerful than the Federal government during peacetime. Almost every problem in our economy can be traced back to Fed meddling. Misinvestment, malinvestment, inflation, moral hazard...the list goes on and on. The Fed truly does reward its clients...the growth in hyper-wealth has created a whole new class of ultra-rich while most toil away with no gain in real wages, left to rent their lives as assets climb to the stratosphere thanks to the Fed.

Contrarians on HN love to argue that there is no inflation. I bought our current house three years ago. According to Zillow and comparable sales, it has TRIPLED in value since 2018. If you don't think there is inflation....
“Rivian, an EV manufacturer whose investors include Amazon filed to go public. The move would offer a more liquid funding source for the company, in line with markets that are increasingly looking to invest in giant markets earlier.”
How to Connect to WiFi on OpenBSD