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> You’re still missing much the point of the article: WASM isn’t for the browser only. WASI, for example, is a full environment you can run stuff in without any such interoperability cost.

Of course, but we are not arguing about the point of the article, I'm contesting the exact claim that "WebAssembly is almost always faster than JavaScript". Admittedly, not because it's such a big mistake on the author's part, but because I'm a bit irate with the usual flow of discussions about WebAssembly here on HN that take this claim for granted and regurgitate it incessantly. This is not the case for the mentioned reasons: data copying overhead and JS itself being compiled by JIT resulting in pretty performant code if well-optimized. Also, the comparison to JS only makes sense when we are talking about running both in the JS engine, not against a dedicated WASM runtime, otherwise it would be tantamount to arguing that Java is not faster than JS.

By the way, if someone really wants to dig into the issue I recommend an article from one of the V8 authors where he dissects one such WASN success story: https://mrale.ph/blog/2018/02/03/maybe-you-dont-need-rust-to...
> but the mRNA approach seems obviously more general and even perhaps more re-usable

We should also see how subunit protein vaccines such as Novavax will perform once they are widely available. From what it looks they should be equally effective and more anti-vaxxer friendly.
Think of pulsars, in this context, as faraway precise clocks that chirp out a regular sequence of pulses [1]. We don't get to pick where they are, or how far away they are, but they're scattered all over the sky.

A gravitational wave passing through our solar-system/region-of-space will cause a very well-prescribed variation in the properties of spacetime. It will cause chirps from pulsars from some parts of the sky to arrive a tiny bit early and chirps from other parts of the sky to arrive a little bit late. As the wave passes by, those "early" and "late" signals will oscillate, making a readily-discernable signal.

The tricky bit, or the elegant bit, is that the signals accessible through this technique are very slow, in the nanohertz [2]. So, the experiment must watch signals from pulsars quasi-continuously for a long time, long enough to see multiple cycles of the oscillation.

It was clear from the outset that the approach had great promise. It was also clear from the outset that the measurement would take decades. We're starting to come to the time where the results are beginning to become quite interesting. There are signals, but they haven't yet oscillated enough to separate oscillations from statistical variation.

The pulsar-timing arrays are a wonderful example of the kinds of things one can do by thinking (and funding) long-term.

[1] Yes, they're imperfect, but the imperfections can either be handled or their statistical variation correctly handled when estimating the measurement's uncertainty.

[2] If you just turned 31, you're about to turn one billion seconds old. Put it on the calendar!
I'd guess the guy charged here was from Ireland on the anti union side, so also an enemy of UK. They were still killing and bombing each other there a few decades ago, so from the British perspective he would be the same as an ISIS sympathiser.
I think it depends

Problems with *traditional* games via WASM/WebGPU in the browser

* Many games are 10-100gig+ in size. The browser provides no good way to store this data for your game and the fact that you had to wait 15mins to multiple hours means you gain no advantage. Further, browser have a balance to keep between letting any site put gigs of data on your machine vs not. And on top of that, the browser provides no way to prevent losing the data. The user clicks "refresh" or something similar and now the user has to re-do that 10-100gig download.

* Browsers have to work around driver bugs and it takes time to fix them and get them through the release cycle. For a native game, if a new driver come out that breaks something you can try to work around it immediately. That's harder on browsers. Your game can try but it's a moving target.

* Browsers change stuff that affects perf more often than native. Today "for = i to N" is faster than for of, tomorrow "for of" is faster (not a real example). My point is, in my experience, it's much easier to optimize for native since you're writing native code. In WASM you're not. Further, you're closer to the metal in native. Today video -> texture is fast, tomorrow it's slow, the next day audio is no longer allowed without a click, etc... I guess I don't have any stats which change more, browser APIs or native. My gut though is that I've had to change browser content often to keep it running

* Running games on any device is mostly fiction. Users range from 3090s to 7yr old intels to 7yr old androids. From touch screens, to mouse and keyboard and with other different limits (no fullscreen on iOS, no pointer lock, ...). Depending on your game that's half your market.

In other words, IMO, games you generally find on Steam are not a good fit for the browser.

On the other hand, you could design games that load fast, start up fast, possibly stream data if they need more, etc and you could possibly make some hit games. Maybe even some of the biggest hit games ever. Remember when Farmville was #1?

Still, my feeling is UnrealEngine in particular, is not a good match for making web friendly games. Most game devs won't pay attention to what it would take to make a web friendly game. Instead they'll just follow the patterns for native games and pick "Export to Web" and basically put out a very poor experience for web.
Here's another simple implementation: https://github.com/karpathy/minGPT
Many more want to be paid by FAANG than want to actually work at them.
So they're definitely not perfect - but it seems like they do far, far more research than the average online source, and are far more reliable, more consistently reliable, and have a much wider array of tested devices (as opposed to a blogger who might test a bunch of products in one specific category).

We can do better than CR - but right now, afaict they're the best we have.
I've seen when an Indian team (doesn't matter though, could be from any other country) was hired with one reason - to shift the blame as the project was going to shits. Also if you are on a sponsored visa, you gonna stay quiet no matter what's happening - your interest is somewhat to stay afloat, not to seek truth or revenge.
> that modern Britain or USA or whatever else is essentially no different from the demonized images of "totalitarian Russia" or Third Reich, NK..

Uh, there's a matter of degree.

In the US, that'd be protected political speech. The most one could expect is scorn.

The UK may have a lesser speech protection than the US, but still a much broader set of political speech is allowed than in Russia or NK.
For me the initial random association was that STV might mean Singapore TV. The clarification about Scotland is useful, certainly STV.tv is not sufficient to assume Scotland out of all the other possible places even if you know that it's a TV station.
If you read the how.md it mentions the key insight was to introduce an operation into the language that allowed temporary violation of 'sensical rules' that the author calls superposition. Then computing or applying one of these super imposed clones collapses down to a final result obeying the rules. Being that the lambda calculus is core to computing information, I can't help but think, what if this is actually an insight into something profound about how our universe works?
https://www.thedailybeast.com/georgetown-law-puts-ilya-shapi...
there is the Human Rights Act in the UK, but it includes rather vague limits to the freedom of expression like "protection of morals" among others.
I don’t think most peoples 25 year old self can really identify what their 85 year old self will be like. Yet saving for retirement isn’t just about them some time in the future it’s about making you feel better now.
If everyone posts "offensive" tweets then there is no basis for singling out an individual to jail them. I'm not literally arguing that if the entire population are physically in prison then they are free.
That's an issue from 2018 with no replies to it.
This is good. Leaving the Iran Deal was even at the time, a bad decision. Iran has only gotten closer to nuclear weapons. Trump made an enormous mistake in leaving that agreement.
and you just re-invented stored procedures and/or RPC

pretty much the same pro's and con's too

safer, more controlled, better optimized
but it's more limiting, another dev dependency and a responsibility bottleneck
Sadly, this kind of behaviour is on brand when it comes to the UK state. It is less than ten years since Section 5 [1] was reformed to remove the display of “insulting” words and writing in public as an offence (Rowan Atkinson made an excellent speech on the matter back then [2]). However, the overall mentality and other laws are still very much at large.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_5_of_the_Public_Order_...

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiqDZlAZygU

While I still do not claim to fully comprehend British culture, there is always an odd undercurrent of authoritarianism whose chill I can feel now and then – it is worth noting that it bridges the political divide. I have talked about this with my British colleagues and heard numerous explanations, but none that I feel satisfactory. At times when I feel particularly dark I joke about this with said colleagues and say: “You say that you went to war with the Germans on behalf of the free world. But at times I wonder: Was it not that they in a way were outdoing you and you were feeling a bit envious?” Now, clearly this is intended to be offensive and not something that I genuinely believe, but like many jokes, it somewhat works because there is some kernel of truth at its core.
Why the /s? I don't think there is a sure way to estimate what the number of total symptomatic infections would be if there weren't any vaccines, but the fact that unvaccinated are overrepresented in case statistics indicate that the vaccines are working as expected.
European CCS standardization is in most cases enforced by law. That doesn't say that CCS is better, it says that it's what the local auto industry demanded in an attempt to freeze out competition. Again, CHAdeMO would have been the objectively better choice.

And even then, it's worth noting that the market leader in Europe is still the company offering an integrated brand-specific charging system. They just have to do it with the inferior connector.
> On average if you can fix your car (or hire a good mechanic i.e. consulting) you would probably have a better experience than public transport breaking down, that you are powerless to do anything about

Spoken as someone who has never taken a train i suppose? Transit at scale can handle maintenance much better than a single vehicle and/or mechanic, and they do so proactively and on schedules. And when things get really bad ( catastrophic failure of some component you can't just "fix" on the spot), public transit will organise a backup ( a new train or a bunch of buses) to get you to your destination.
There are far fewer symptomatic infections and deaths than there would have been otherwise.
That's fair. But even the quick description of the project is "Easily manage wineprefix using environments".
Give https://www.wordhoot.com/ a try if you enjoy Wordle. It's ad-free and sign in is optional unless you want detailed stats/history. Disclaimer, I'm the creator.
Yeah they're just unicode emojis really simple to do and a big part of the popularity imo. From discord, twitter or whatsapp I can easily share and compare with a bunch of different groups of friends.
The Interface Types Proposal is Wasm's answer to what you're describing: https://github.com/WebAssembly/interface-types/blob/main/pro...
One thing we always see when a mass extinction happens is that mega fauna goes first. Large animals can't hide, unlike rat sized ones. Currently so much of the mega fauna outside of Africa has disappeared that we don't even think most continents had any: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megafauna#Megafaunal_mass_exti...

That would suggest we're 10,000 years into one, rather than being at the early stages of it.
With HTTPS you aren't also trusting literally everyone else on the internet to not mess with you.
You can selectively turn it off for sites that you like. I have mine turned off for the local news blog which is pretty good and I like to support it.
How is "conceptual problem" different from "math-only context" ?
I dunno, nobody even does this for computer viruses, which have a lot less ethical downside.
U.S. Consumer Spending Drops with Inflation Hitting 40-Year High
Google's $1B housing plan draws more questions than answers
Thanks for the advice, but I've read there is lots of farming and it is mainly about online play. Those are two things I avoid. I want to play a single player campaign and beat a game in a couple of days to a couple of weeks tops.
For those interested in this, you may also enjoy exploring the field of General Semantics: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaoJIXlyLvLkMQUtbiTi1...
wow, I am exactly opposite. I didnt realize until I read the full story. I am in my 40s and didn't have car until I was in my 20s and actually rarely sat in one because of abundant public transport at the place where I grew up.
Microsoft paywalled Solitaire, never underestimate corporate greed.
They have trialled variant specific vaccines for both Delta and Omicron. It turned out that the original vaccine is as effective for Delta, so that work was shelved. Omicron, on the other hand, seems to be evading the immunity created by the Alpha vaccine, so they are actually planning to start producing an Omicron specific booster (or more correctly Alpha+Omicron) after FDA approval.
DIY/Open source is cool in that everyone gets to scratch their own itch, but…

I wouldn't want to bet my web experience on a browser maintained by a small team of volunteers diverging from a known engine. Seems like it would be easy to end up in a state where modern features are unavailable or security vulnerabilities are unpatched, because some dude on the Internet prioritized his own life over being the maintenance guy for your browser.
I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not, but I'll call you when my bookie puts his contract on the the blockchain.
The nice thing, of course, for fake-John, is that they just get to try again. I'll bet that fake-John has a 50% chance of lasting at least 6 months in a role by getting in this way. And so much the better if they live actually live in an area with a much lower cost of living than their pay-scale was intended for.

And I wonder what "real" John gets out of this. I bet he makes a lot of money. Maybe he gets lots of people jobs this way, he provides all of his own payment information, and then forwards 90% to the people who actually have to "show up" (such as it is) for work.

Man, I want to franchise this! Actually now that I'm at the end of my post I think I just described the consulting industry...
> I have a subscription to a number of news sites. I actually pay for their content. My ad-blocker still blocks a bunch of banners, trackers, and various other bits and bobs.

Exactly. This is my point: the ad industry is abusive.
Basically, yeah. I think it's pretty clear what I'm claiming. Just check out the Twitter, man. Hopefully you'll be more open minded than the rest of them. :)
> I don’t think most peoples 25 year old self can really identify what their 85 year old self will be like.

Yes, and I believe this is a reason why people make choices that adversely affect their 50 year old self. Who's that guy in the future going to be? Why should I care about making it better for him?
Are abstracts typically filled with this much editorial? I’m no climate science denier but adjectives like “sad” seem insanely out of place in something like this…
"Always" as in 1972 - after nearly a century of suffering the aftereffects of the opium wars. The Singapore Economic Development board predates the harshest drug laws by a decade and when the law came into effect, Singapore was already well into its economic miracle.
+1, Many developers can barely use git.
> If homogeneity in a country increases social trust and other positive factors (it does)

Strong claim requires strong evidence, please.
Interesting point! I never thought of the content as being non-scarce before.

Do you feel copyright laws don't apply, or?
It's been awhile since I've looked at the stats of a beetle, so thanks for pointing out I was being overly conservative. It's all crazy isn't it? I'm curious what MPG we could get on a modern 40 HP engine?
Whether it will have that many users in a few months is anyone's guess.

This feels kinda like the flappy bird craze, albeit a little less silly...
Yeah there is a lot of imaginary stories obviously. But at the same time as a contractor you could always work with multiple clients, not sure why it comes as a surprise in 2021. A full-time employee for 2 companies? Bullshit. Not a sustainable model.
Why does the caption of the picture say "Captain Tom: Man guilty of 'offensive' Tweets"? He's the target of the tweet not the one guilty of it, correct?
I'm not familiar with libertarians who are uncomfortable with hidden information. In fact, the ones I know would consider requiring casinos to post such information to be government intrusion.
I mean they don't come to Wordle to do that they play wordle and go other places. I would not have played it if it wanted me to log in and link my socials or recreate my social graph to share.

When I said people don't go to wordle for a social network I mean wordle comes to whatever social grouping you already have because it's so simple and easy to share. It's not a social network it's a thing people do socially which is vastly different.
What is that saying about "tell me what your incentives are and I'll tell you how you'll act"?
> I could take an ad

Why?

There is objectively nothing that NYT could add to the game to make it more interesting. It can only make it worse.
> Not for potential issues tens of years later, which is basically the concern people are raising about these vaccines.

I am concerned about tens of years later, but also about just ones of years later as well. We've done the best we can so far, and it seems like a clear win for some categories of people. For others, it's not so clear (like young healthy people with a previous infection living in the age of omicron for example. This is not medical advice, go to your doctor for that).

> This is more or less the same standard applied to just about any medical research for drugs, vaccines, other treatments, etc.

Sure, but I'm not chomping at the bit to take any more of those either (already had all the usual vaccines and then some, minus flu). And those other things have been around long enough that adverse effects eventually become unmissable. You see those occasionally in class action commercials.
Why ever vary the speed?

At this point, most of the parts of an EV are quite mature, and the overall system is a lot more straightforward than a conventional ICE car. A rear motor (or pair) can drive the real wheels without a transaxle or multi-speed transmission. Traction control can be achieved by rapidly adjusting torque. Regenerative breaking massively increases brake lifetime and reduces particulate emissions. 4WD is relatively inexpensive and increases efficiency (because the front and rear motors can be optimized for different operating regimes, and one can be turned off whole cruising). An electric A/C compressor can operate at the optimal speed for the A/C without regard for driving conditions. A small battery pack that can produce plenty of power for bursts of acceleration under anything except racing conditions is essentially a commodity.

So I think a series electric car with a 150kW (not kWh, and only supplying 150kW in brief bursts) and a small, highly efficient 30-40kW gasoline engine would be fantastic. And that engine would not need to have low efficiency and high emissions while warming up at low speed — when it turns on, it could immediately run at its optimal operating point even if the car is stuck in traffic.

Heck, a manufacturer could sell the engine as an optional feature — many customers could simply skip the engine and drive the car as a short-range EV.
How does it compare with Crossover? Crossover is the only software I ever used where new MS Office works.
Indeed, the app is completely client-side with static files, and it seems there is already a fully functional mirror of the current version on IPFS:

https://bafybeic4blel5vf4il73n3nzt6vw7npsov6or3cp3myjms4npii...
When humans killed off most of the megafauna, it caused cascading extincations. Dire wolves went extinct with nothing to eat. The Osage orange tree nearly went extinct (down to one very small area); it's believed that were spread by Giant Ground Sloth droppings. Tons of dependent plants and animals likely vanished from our "natural" landscape without ever having been recorded.
Well, about the only place you'd see 40 HP these days is in a light motorbike, so just about infinite.
That's certainly true. However, I really miss dislikes for tutorial. If I'm repairing a sensitive piece of equipment, dislikes are useful to cut out the noise from the signal.
These days when I find a really great online service I hope it doesn’t get too popular because a buy-out and monetisation is sure to follow.

I’m happy for the developers but wish it wasn’t necessary.
There are courses on programming languages in general for CS majors, and textbooks for those courses can be found by searching "programming languages" on Amazon, for example

Concepts of Programming Languages (11th Edition)
by Robert W. Sebesta

Programming Language Pragmatics
by Scott, Michael L.
Buying a property and milking it fast enough to get a return before its full dead isn't "dumb" per se. Some companies have it as their core business model.
> Some sort of Guix thing?

Nah, this is very small and rough at the moment -- may never come to anything. But it's fun to work on.

> the first being Brendan Eich's failed attempt to embed Scheme in Netscape Navigator, resulting in JavaScript

What a different (and better, IMO) world we'd be in if he'd managed to sneak that by the suits... ah, well.
I don't think that would be the problem. I have both read about, and personally witnessed, people of completely non-technical backgrounds (ex-chef, ex-aesthetician, ex-Uber driver, etc.) get SWE jobs - even at FAANGMULA companies at that.

The reason I used the word "unlikely" is in the context of leetcode interviews being the gatekeeper nowadays. That wasn't the case when I made the jump.

That ex-Uber driver, ex-chef, etc. all became SWEs despite their backgrounds because they were able to successfully grind leetcode enough to pass the technical interviews. If you can too, then there's no reason why you couldn't become a SWE also. However, it is definitely easier said than done.

More recently and personally, I have a friend who used to be ex-QA for Facebook. He was given chances to jump to a SWE role, but failed to do so because he couldn't pass the leetcode interviews. But the opportunity was there.