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WebAssembly Apps on Android: Why and How
A new option for Android app developers. Create modules and functions for your app in WebAssembly! With the WasmEdge Runtime’s Android port, you will get

Native speed & sandbox safety
Dev in your language — eg Rust, C++, Go & JS
Embed 3rd party functions in your android app
k8s managed android apps

## How

Compile and build WasmEdge for Android. https://wasmedge.org/book/en/extend/build_for_android.html

Use Rust + WebAssembly for high performance AI inference (mobilenet image classification) on Android https://wasmedge.org/book/en/os/android/cli.html

Wrap a Webassembly app in an Android NDK shell. It is the same TensorFlow TFLite image classification / inference Wasm app as the the first one, but wrapped in your own app. https://wasmedge.org/book/en/os/android/ndk.html

Create an Android APK app with an embedded WasmEdge Runtime. WebAssembly functions turn your app into a platform for other devs. https://wasmedge.org/book/en/os/android/apk.html
Really? A Fire Upon the Deep and Dune are masterpieces, yes, but The Dark Forest although good isn't in the same league IMO.

- - - -

Tangent: Have you read Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun? It's less famous than the books above, but (IMO) it's in the same rarefied company as Dune and J.R.R. Tolkien's work.
Considering the cost of music gear + lessons, I find it unlikely I'll ever make a profit. I also consider it more than a hobby, but something I can't fully commit to due to having a day job to focus on.
That's the whole point. OO gives a class as base, forcing you to reextract limited instanciation logic into another thing, when it's just functions from a to b. And people get to waste time on this.
Smart people are less instinct driven. One doesn't need to stick to factory settings if one can configure to fit the state of affairs.
> The government doesn't want you holding large amounts of cash.

Government ownership of the interest rate is part of the problem. In a free market, an interest rate emerges naturally based on the supply of money from savers, and demand of money from consumers.

Any individual divides their wealth into either saving or consumption based on their individual time preferences. Some people like stuff now, some people are happy to wait and have more later. Presently, we are forced to consume, or take on riskier assets to save.

> Hoarding money is bad.

Bonds and savings accounts aren't hoarding money; you loan the money out for other people to use productively, and they pay you an interest rate.

> If you don't think T-bonds pay enough you're free to buy other bonds, equities, real estate, even gold if you like it so much.

Again, you're failing to see the consequences of t-bonds having a low interest rate and the US dollar being unable to store value. The consequence are volatile and speculative asset markets. If over time no one wants treasury bonds or USD, they become valueless.
By that definition, I must be addicted to oxygen, food, water, and a number of other substances.
Reminds me of those smug Norwegians subsidising EVs with the profits of oil exports.

We’re all a bit jealous of course.
sweeet. Thank you! Will look at those. And I'm really happy that this whole space is finally getting attention.
Should we also stop calling negative numbers numbers?
http://re100.eng.anu.edu.au/global/
It's nonsense put out by the media and you bought it. This is more peaceful than any protest in the summer. Hundreds of crimminal investigations? The worse crime is carrying gas in a can. The ramming of trucks into other protesters happened at blm protest in the US.

The government and media have powerful tools that can shape stories to the masses. Smart people like yourself can easily fall prey. If that's the only information allowed to be heard you may not be getting a 360 view. $And you want to give them total control?

Do we want only government supported movements?
Humans are pretty dumb eh
From a writing perspective, a critique with the article's structure is that the sub-heading "What to do" comes first before the list of questions to ask yourself.

It's placed under "Reflect on urges and motivation," with the points:

"Do you recognise your feelings and behaviour in any of the signs below?

"-You need an increasing amount of alcohol or drugs to feel a buzz or high.

-You feel an urgency to get the first drink or drug of the day.

-You experience a loss of interest in other activities and an increased desire to get ‘high’ or ‘buzzed’.

-You try to quit or cut down on the use of alcohol or drugs but can’t.

-You will do almost anything to get the drug or alcohol."

This segment is particularly more difficult to find at the first glance, as it's in the middle of the broader "What to do" section, versus at the start or end of the section. These points of the article may have been a more suitable fit under the emphasized "Key points" section.
Fair point I limited my view onto java. Other systems have various degrees of freedom.
Social media addiction can lead to severe mental health issues, eating disorders, depression, and even suicide.

Video game addiction often leads to children and adults completely destroying their professional or academic lives. In many cases, a child grows up to find a balance between working just enough to afford their videogame habbit.

I have read stories of an adult who was so addicted to a simple cellphone game that they were compulsively telling lies to create more game time and ultimately destroyed all of their social relationships and lost their job. All of that dysfunction stems from their brain's addiction to the rush of progress bars, levelling up, victory screens, and success chimes.

Not all people are wired the same. A lot of brains are hopelessly addicted to these two categories of stimuli and I feel you dismiss them a bit too carelessly.
> You can’t fix a lack of emotional fortitude and insecurities with technology. These are mental health challenges exacerbated by the tools available.

I dont think the GP is suggesting that there's no technological changes required, just lamenting the root cause of the problem.

Similarly, technology can exacerbate gambling addictions, and we have measures we've put in place there.

It'll probably take some time to work that out though.
Didn’t work for Concorde, and that was in the days before widespread electronic documents and video conferencing.
If Everyone Else Is Such an Idiot, How Come You're Not?
> its also a common rationalization

Abductive reasoning forms hypotheses, not conclusions.
Thank you! I've used this website before, but I had trouble remembering its name last week, I was searching "lab gator" "gator lab"...
Sure, so similar to in the US, where if the company changes your contract you are eligible for unemployment if you refuse.
On the other hand, if you're vaccinated, you're less likely to have symptoms, so you're less likely to notice that you're infected.
I am probably more in touch with that reality than most people here. I have decades of first-hand experience with the economics of being poor in America, and had to dig out of holes much larger than $4k. Never went bankrupt, though I came close once. I am financially comfortable now but I still have a lot of contact with that world, and am familiar with their finances.

The Federal Reserve and BLS data accurately reflects the realities average Americans face day to day in my experience. Individual situations are always somewhat unique and varies a bit depending on where you live in the US, but the statistics are broadly correct.
This is, naturally, awesome.

If I put my backseat driving hat on :D my next steps would be to

a) Wait for things to take off, iron out the initial kinks, and become quietly successful, then talk to the city at a few levels higher to showcase the benefits of cohesive open data, or at least structured data - leading the conversation here might (?) be interesting, but fostering additional connectivity between different branches (while helping to frame the focal points of the technical discussion, which is critical yet often tricky) would leave a positive impression for starters, may also help with internal communication and efficiency, and will of course help everyone slowly lumber towards modernity overall.

b) Whisper "GTFS" in Google's ear ;)

I would definitely do (a) before (b) - particularly the slow-paced adoption and settlement process (maybe even quietly build the GTFS integration yourself, before making any noise) - to give the city the best fighting chance possible against involuntary infections of Chromebooks/Google Workspace/etc ;P around the time the GTFS people show up. Y'know, just in case. Good to have a position first and all that.

The reason (b) could be particularly interesting, is that - presuming there is currently poor or no integration (this suggestion is irrelevant otherwise) - running interference here successfully may (alongside improving transport info for everyone) wind up netting you an interesting position at the city (consistent, set for life, good opportunity for lateral movement and initiative-taking given your start point, etc) or a decent shot at whatever office/presence Google has in/near Slovenia (could be interesting, could be hit/miss, might not appeal at all).

It's entirely possible you're doing this because you're already in a solid position you're happy with, in which case ignore most of the above :D
"I would guess that many submissions to /newest are indeed autogenerated"

Either this, or the humans run mentally on bot mode.
cloudflare and others workers are almost literally fastcgi for javascript.

The problem is that node is not a good cgi engine.
Here's a good collection of details about the entire star system of Proxima Centauri, including its planets.

https://www.star-facts.com/proxima-centauri/

Also fascinating, a relative distance vs time graph of close stars. It turns out we'll have closer distances for 6 in the next 10,000 - 50,000 years.

https://www.star-facts.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Neares...

Somehow I feel like Elon Musk has a print out of that graph on his office wall.
All of the descriptions I've seen were "viable" in the sense of "we could hypothetically accomplish this in a few decades a for around $100 trillion". At least that was the estimate for Project Daedalus, which designed a nuclear pulse propulsion probe to do a 50-year flyby of Barnard's Star. Fun to think about but it's going to be a while before even the largest governments can afford to fund a project that most of its creators will never see completed.
Purely anecdotical, but moving to almost anywhere from Netlify (free tier) results in a major performance boost. A simple static site of mine went from 300ms to 80ms when I eventually transferred it to a cheap ssd webhost. Sure, free service, but know the strings attached.
I found it hard to regulate but easy to quit. I was probably smoking more than you from the sound of it, but I found myself smoking more during the work day when I started working from home, tried to put some limits on it and then found myself breaking the rules. So I stopped cold, worst of it was probably the desire to smoke while winding down, more of a craving than a compulsion though and no physical symptoms.
>A screenreader doesn’t literally read the screen

Why not? The approach of creating an accessibility tree can take extra work from developers instead of it just working. It's convenient to be able to just use an image without writing alt text for it. For example in a group chat.
Ask HN: What Is the Worst Software?
Somehow this question has not yet been asked here AFAIK. My phrasing is deliberately open-ended.
you have got a great bunch there :)
At least there is such a thing as growing tissues from stem cells. Nothing at all in the category of "uploading" one's consciousness anywhere exists. Not "uploading a memory", not "uploading a thought process", those are abstract concepts we've made to describe what the extremely strange organs that brains are do, anyway, and we're nowhere near close to understanding its biology much less replicating what it actually does with a machine.
Code That Doesn’t Rot
27 hours of travelling in a first class suite isn’t that bad
That's interesting, I've always though ctrl-c would close things. I tried so many things like "quit" "exit" ctrl-c "help"
> I will still never understand why companies do this

Literally cost. That's it. An example from my own experience:

UK Cost center, salaries started at £18k.

They moved this operation to the Philipines. Starting salaries of PHP350k - the equivalent of just under £5k.

Cutting the cost of salaries is much more easily quantified than the cost of a damaging customer service.
I have to guess some of these "bugs" have to do with the writer and her husband sharing an Apple family. When AirTag just started, my S.O would get alerts when we walked together, that my AirPods are following them. Well yeah, we were doing errands together and the AirPods were in my pocket.

These days it doesn't happen, I have to assume having a AirTag from your own defined family "track" you is not considered alert worthy anymore, at least not for the first few hours. Or somehow this bug still randomly pops up, but not right away
Recently I have been using Marginalia a bit.

Surprisingly often not only do I find usable results with Marginalia but even better results.

A good deal of what Marginalia does different[1] seems to be to strongly prefer pages with less ads and tracking.

Sadly for Google and happily for me and others there is an amazing amount of good content that surfaces once you peel away the cookie cutter, maximum ad, maximum tracking web sites.

For now we need some of those ad filled pages but if the marked changes I am fairly sure most of them will adapt or be replaced.

[1]: besides being a real search engine instead of vector search or whatever it is Google and Bing does that feeds me with several non-matches in every search.

Edit, I got a downvote and while I don't care about the exact points I guess it is because someone think I exaggerate wildly, so here is a challenge, try to repeat this search in your favorite mainstream engine and see what results you get: https://search.marginalia.nu/search?query=windows+linux+dual...
I worked as a consultant with a phone operator who were insourcing their inhouse sales (telemarketing) after having it outsourced. What they had discovered was that by outsourcing that function they had lost a large chunk of their overall talent pool that they could recruit from to almost any other function (especially sales of course).
Because those are legal businesses, and you can't critique the world order like that. Drink your corn syrup and stay quiet.
I mostly agree with you, but with some changes (applies not just to music but any other field). Discipline is the multiplier on talent, not the other way round. "Talent" is most definitely not a myth - to take it to an egregious example, no amount of discipline would ever make me play center in the NBA or piano in Carnegie Hall. But... that's ok.
Ugh. Something deeply wrong about our university system, that this article didn't really surprise me at all.
Planetary bodies observed for first time in habitable zone of dead star
Consider me sceptical.

In the the Netherlands, in the rich city of Noordwijk, some people claimed that the tourists would stay away before the placement of wind turbines near the coast.
The wind turbines came. The tourists stayed.

Didn't Trump sign some laws that would prevent wind turbines near his Florida property?

#NIMBY
The road to authoritarian technology is paved with convenience
We didn't shadowban you. We told you we were banning you and why: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27214380. You haven't just been breaking the site guidelines in many different ways, you've been posting slurs that are among the worst things I've seen on HN in quite a while. Since you've continued to do that (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30283728 was just yesterday), it's clear that the decision to ban the account was correct.
Ive occasionally taken breaks but I think I didn't do it long enough.

This time at like day 3-4 I was triumphantly saying there was no withdrawals, but for some reason I was unusually angry.

I dont deny anger, I almost denied that I was angry. Normally I absorb the emotion and analyze why I was this way. I couldn't really do that, I couldn't really justify why I was angry. I even woke up angry with no apparent cause.

The next day I lost control and raised my voice out of anger for a moment. Something I generally don't do. I tried questioning this anger again but found no answers. I believe at this time I still didn't believe cannabis was addictive or for that matter I was having withdrawals. Let alone this was just the beginning.

Took over a week for problems to really peak.

The bigger problem, I was using medically... without it... that original problem also started to come back. Just making it all that much worse.
An easy mode could provide a querty keyboard that one can eliminate letters.
Oil. The islands have been early adopters of renewables (they are ideally fit) . Solar water heaters are common since many decades. No gas infrastructure
I'm sure anyone that's submitted even semi-regularly has experienced getting no upvotes then seeing the same thing submitted by someone else hit the front page a few days later.
I've got great news for you
I always recommend the oreilly book 'kafka the definitive guide'. https://kafka.apache.org/books-and-papers
Mind linking this fanfic? Sounds interesting.
What vaccine guardrails are you under the impression were removed? AFAIK none were removed, it's just steps were done in parallel at great $expense. It appears you are trying to imply that it's fine if Tesla skips safety testing and pops a few skulls like watermelons in pursuit of $FSD. I'm not saying perfection is possible, but certainly Tesla can do better than it's doing. If anything, Tesla threatens to set everything back with its sloppiness. One bad accident could create enough bad PR to set self-driving cars back for years.
https://leftwrite.io/

I’m working on a project to focus on reading things and writing more. I found that it helps quite a bit and ill continue working on it as I personally find it rewarding.

The project is in the space of stuff like second brains, and zettlekasten note taking but I think something with a really good ui is needed to make this stuff popular. I went the other way and made it as simple as possible.

I’m using this project to focus on limiting the amount of code I write as I want this working for a long time and I believe that having less code probably helps that goal.
Fantastic copy-paste job, Pelm!

Can’t wait to see when your copy of Arcadia’s work is finished!!!
Why is it weird that a private corporation is doing space exploration & technology? Most of the biggest sailing expeditions were undertaken by private individuals and companies (although often under the funding of a royal family). Locomotives and airplanes were also created and perfected by private individuals / companies.

The 1950s-2000s NASA model for space exploration was unusual in its centralized approach.
Ah, yes I should have done that to begin with. Thanks!
I categorize this as bugs caused by data inconsistency because od data duplication. That includes:

- Using asynchronous database replication and reading data from database slaves
- Duplicating same data over multiple database tables (possibly for performance reasons)
- Having additional system that duplicates some data. For example: in the middle of rewriting some legacy system - a process that was split into phases so functionality between new and old systems overlap for some period of time.

Based on my experience I always assume that inconsistency is unavoidable when the same information is stored in more than one place.
"Hyperbole is the use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech. In rhetoric, it is also sometimes known as auxesis. In poetry and oratory, it emphasizes, evokes strong feelings, and creates strong impressions. As a figure of speech, it is usually not meant to be taken literally." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole)

Yes, absolutely correct, I used hyperbole :)

I kind of want to truncate my response to the above. I will respond in more detail, not to be defensive, but because perhaps there is a misunderstanding that can be rectified here. This expressive passage was not meant to convey hubris.

I genuinely have yet to find a text which comprehensively introduces the game in a fun way, as mine does. You will see in other comments that folks often have chess sets lying around, but they struggle to engage those around them or teach the game engagingly. The tone of that paragraph is born from a very real, very modern, and very frustrating experience.

Most books that "teach" chess are things like My System, which presumes some familiarity with the game and its rules, and is also just super dry. Josh Waitzkin's Attacking Chess was great as an intro to tactics, but not to the piece movements or chess itself as a whole. There are no other resources I have seen which effectively employ minigames, except perhaps IM Herman Grooten's recommended "Steps Method" (https://www.stappenmethode.nl/en/). After speaking with IM Grooten, I decided that their approach, while great for the classroom and extremely comprehensive, is not encapsulated in a form that non-chess instructors would find worth paging through and implementing in their lives or with their loved ones.

As an aside, I think Lucena's book was written so long ago that some of the rules (pawn double-step, en passant, long-range queen movement, castling) may not have been the same. I haven't read it, and I don't know anyone who has, so I can't say for sure. Wikipedia hints at this.

I really can't say where the counterexample is, because I haven't found good introductory teaching. Lichess has great learning modules, which can take someone from zero knowledge to decent player in a great engaging way. But that's not well-explained to a parent or beginner who isn't quite self-motivated to dig through hardcore chess stuff on their own.

For those in the autodidact demographic, my book is irrelevant for sure, and perhaps that includes you. Other resources those folks might find more useful (the kind who want lists of source material instead of some hubristic author opining) I have listed here: https://andytrattner.com/chess
- That's crazy. I would say no way.
- I hope your in a position to move on. Like someone else said, they badically just fired you.
- You could try to fight it. Probably expensive and no guaranted payday.
- Companies should be able to ask whatever they want.
- Would you want to work for someone like this anyways? Hopefully no one would.
If Google aren't selling them then someone else will, and that means someone else is building marketshare and using the profit to grow. That represents a threat to Google's main ad business. The last thing Google want is for an advertiser or a pubisher to use a separate service for part of their inventory, because that means someone else has direct access to their customer.
Dance! And Leave the Package on the Porch.
The unstated part of what I'm trying to read in good faith is that you are saying that money is speech? I understand that in theory, but I also think that in practice, we have proven that money does not tend to flow evenly to just causes.

As an extension of that, look what western governments have funded covertly, and what it has wrought, especially since the start of the 20th century.

I really doubt that this will be limited to individuals donating to a populist cause (which to be clear, all three major parties, and a HUGE majority of Canadians don't support). I don't see that being the majority of it. I suspect that intelligence agencies, and corporate interests will be far more likely to be the ones that use the unlimited untraceable money to destabilize social systems.
I see all her other devices, but not keys. Now that I know how it should work, going to see if re-registering the keys changes things.