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> The rejection from the Bytecode Alliance was based on a history of behavior that isn’t compatible with the BA codes of conduct—both the individual CoC and the organizational CoC.

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> We made both of these points explicit in the rejection email. In that email, we also said that if Wasmer established a track record of positive engagement, we would re-evaluate.

From a BA member[0]. If I was you, I'd start reading some interpersonal communication books ASAP and really take some time to reflect deeply on what is happening here. It seems like a lot of people around you are making decisions that gravely impact your business and personal future (your lawyers trademarking things without you understanding what, the Bytecode Alliance rejecting you, people alleging harassment, etc.) and you're having a hard time understanding what they are doing and why.

[0] https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/issues/3#issuecomment-71...
Uhh the red flags were there in 1997 when you all started buying client-server software. Intel and the industry know you are idiots at computers.

MMO's/steam are signs of idiocracy, aka you are bad at understanding you are getting robbed. That's why we have TPM and client-server crapware in windows 10/11.

If you buy any client-server SaaS you are a moron, everyone was expecting local applications forever until 1997. Even EA would have never imagined you'd all be dumb enough to buy incomplete programs where they take files hostage on a 2nd computer half a world away.

So no the time to be alarmed was over 20 years ago, since there is no software or game that requires an internet connection, there was no steam, no stupid fucking login screens, nothing. The public has told the tech industry it is chimp factor five levels of stupid over the last 23+ years. So they are locking us out of our PC's, windows 10/11 is building copyright enforcement into the cpu so future applications won't run and your bios can be remote updated like a console to disable any pirated software or cracked exe's that are found on your PC.

You all gave them this access to your PC, so why wouldn't intel and the rest just keep going?

See here on EA and ultima, and the death of games as local applications:

https://youtu.be/lnnsDi7Sxq0?t=1134
Affirmative action has no place at that end of the pipe. You need to be addressing the root cause of lower inputs for minority students instead of pretending that admitting them has the same rate of success that admitting higher scoring students does.

As a society we seem to think it's on everyone to make a difference at every level but unless the earliest stages have bought into that it's way less effective than it sounds. Inequality is a society wide problem that needs society wide solutions, implemented by governments to reduce these gaps at their origin.

Once we see change there it will filter through the system naturally as long as you are making these sorts of biased "personal score" systems illegal.
It’s probably worth mentioning that in the text exchange when asked about the applications for “webassembly” and “wasm”, the response text included the following:

“…I’m aware we registered the Wasmer trademark, so it might be related.”

However, that is not true.

Wasmer was not registered, just like “Wasm” and “Webassembly” the USPTO issued an Office Action for the “Wasmer” TM application, just like the other two applications the attorney withdrew, Wasmer failed to respond to the Office Action, and the application was abandoned.

With the exact same failure to respond to a USPTO Office Action for their own business name, I’m wondering did the CEO also intentionally fail to respond to the USPTO Office Action for Wasmer and if so why?
Gmail sucks, search sucks, meet sucks. The only two product I get value from is maps and YouTube.
It's actually pretty impressive how much faster Docker builds containers on M1 running in aarch Linux VM vs on Docker Desktop. But to your point about "how the machine is used", I've encountered very few devs who care.
I agree on the graphical editor. Before customizing it to my needs there were several behaviors that I found quite tedious.

Since it may be of interest I'll add some notes.

You can get a console also in the desktop app if you launch it from a terminal adding --remote-debugging-port=..., then opening http://127.0.0.1:<port> from a chromium-based web browser.

A couple of useful functions that allow to listen to events are graph.model.addListener and graph.selectionModel.addListener. They are documented in the mxGraph api page.

You can make your functions persistent between sessions by putting your code in a javascript file, clicking from the desktop app on Extras > Plugins > Add > Select File... Then restart the app. In the web app "Select File..." is replaced by "Custom..." and the file should be some reacheable url. The javascript file can contain arbitrary javascript code, doesn't need to have a specific format.

Finally, to customize the ui actions, keybindings and menus without touching the various event listeners, this answer on stackexchange [1] from user holroy is what initially guided me in the right direction.

[1] https://webapps.stackexchange.com/a/82379
Several years ago my wife and I agreed we'd actively start making a baby and quit contraceptives. She was on the pill (progestogen-only) and we'd been using it for the better part of three years. Worked fine, she took it religiously at the same time every day.

So we agreed to quit, and the next day she comes to me, awkwardly, saying "It worked!" half-jokingly. I stared at the pregnancy test, positive and unambiguous as ever. At the second test, too.

Turns out she'd been already pregnant for almost a month. That kind of contraceptive is only 99% effective. Our daughter was born eight months later.

Safe to say, the missing percentage is warranted.
As was LTE before it ("it's not even actually 4G, that's supposed to be 100-1000 Mbit")

And UMTS 3G before that ("it's just for video calls, who wants that anyway")
Bored Apes NFT startup raises seed round at $4B valuation
I agree with this but it's also possible to, realizing your job is unfulfilling, and realizing you also don't want to turn your calling into your job, just checking out entirely. (at least for a time)
Mozilla won't employ its founder because of who he donated money to in 2008. What makes them believe they can champion an open web?
> I don't see how using len() this way is any different than doing an isinstance check.

It's a protocol (structural) runtime type check, not a class (nominal) runtime type check.
They already do spend a lot of money on marketing. The issue is they spend a lot of money to market that they value privacy and then their actions show otherwise. I also think having Canonical aquire them would be a terrible decision. They need to spend less money on marketing and more on developing what they claim to support.
I usually hear “resources” used in the abstract, which was grating the first time, but I’ve gotten over.

Are you hearing that literally? Would you share an example sentence?
Not going to try to look like I'm explaining how life works just my 2c: life is complicated and quality comes in different shapes and forms. "A job is an exchange of services" is a way to reduce this complexity and cut down on the interdependence of dimensions we optimize for.

I personally don't have the constraint that i need to give everything to my job and it needs to give back, so i agree with the GP and don't see it as dystopian, just one of the many ways of living.

Others legitimately do have this constraint and probably have to simplify elsewhere (not have kids is something I've seen a lot).
You seem to have very strong anti-establishment opinions. There are a lot of off-patent drugs (i.e. generics) that are dirt cheap and widely prescribed. Metformin is one example. Unfortunately, your world-view prevents you from seeing through the logical holes of your own statements. If dichloroacetate cured cancer, it would require a global conspiracy to conceal that fact. Doctors, hospitals, and insurance companies have quite the opposite incentives from big pharma. Like you, they dislike the excessive profiteering from pharmaceutical companies. Why would they be party to this conspiracy?
I guess so... with an extra dose of neutrality! (one hopes)
your captcha is impossible to get through, gave up after 4 tries. using chrome on ios
Wow. Typical HN crowd to diminish anything other than their own accomplishments or lack thereof. This thread also managed to give backhanded comments to NVIDIA and Microsoft.
It would probably be possible to write a layout engine for diagrams to get the best of both worlds. Would be great for some drawing, other diagrams work well with drag and drop.
I think the issue is that they just wouldn’t know. They didn’t know which customers were impacted. They didn’t know which users personal data might have been compromised. They most likely don’t have the ability to determine whether a user is a EU resident or not as this information would reside with their customers HR systems which all points to having to notify to avoid the legal complications.
> I think there is nothing irrational about this.

it's not irrational. Unless you ignore the lower needs on the Maslow's hierarchy of needs and spend your efforts on the higher needs.

The lower needs are basic - sustenance and safety etc. If someone is wealthy enough to meet these needs with time and resources to spare, then it makes a lot of sense to spend the extra resources on the higher needs.

But it is irrational to try to fulfil a higher need, when you don't already have the lower needs fulfilled first.
I am currently trying to find their Common Criteria certificate for that product, but it seems like there is none for the LPC55S69 according to their forums [1].

[1] https://community.nxp.com/t5/LPC-Microcontrollers/Does-the-L...
This is the same Marik behind efforts to treat COVID with Ivermectin. The paper he co-authored about treating COVID was found to have major issues and was retracted.

As for this particular paper about the Vitamin C trial (which hasn't been retracted yet): numerous other groups tried replicating it and none could. Millions and millions and millions of dollars, countless hours wasted on conducting controlled trials all because of this guy's fraud.

My two takeaways:

1) Kudos to Sheldrick, we absolutely need more people like him. We need statisticians to pick apart data in papers and see if it smells funny. This should have been caught earlier.

2) There should be a higher price to pay for this kind of fraud. For the confusion and mistrust that ensued, for the money and human capital that was wasted, he needs to be behind bars for a long, long time.
When my wife and I decided to try for a baby and stopped using protection, the very first pregnancy test she ever took was positive, and we weren't sure we were reading it right because we'd never done this before. Unfortunately she miscarried pretty much immediately (fetus never developed a heartbeat).

We tried again, but had no luck for several years and eventually made an appointment with a fertility clinic. Literally the very next day she tested positive, and we now have two kids.
> if the research used any public funds the guilty party/parties deserves criminal prosecution.

That sort of prompts the question though: Should it be a crime for any scientist to deliberately publish falsified data?

Obviously there would need to be a very high bar for proving that it was deliberate and not an honest mistake (or even complete incompetence), and we wouldn't want juries to have the power to stop new scientific theories emerging, but other professions are subject to criminal penalties if they fail at their job.
Moreover, check your tax filings next time you want to feel like you give back to society.

I’m not saying you shouldn’t do anything extra-curricular, but as a wage earning citizen you are already doing a good bit of your fair share just by earning money and handing it over as tax revenue.

(Where I am sure this falls down, for many people, is that their local and federal government is useless at moving the needle on any kind of issues for social good. Hands up if you live in a nation with both aircraft carriers and child poverty!)
I am trying to scan usually about 40 negatives at one time so I may be hitting every one of it's weak points in one go.
There’s also a very big supplements industry that’s very dependent on not needing to do any safety studies and only very low quality efficacy studies.
> I do not intend to return into the workforce ever.

the thing is, if you could already live off your own wealth and assets, then yea, this is great. But what of those who do not own enough assets to support themselves without a paying job?
Welcome friend, it's been too long we've been waiting for you. Through the process of acquisition I currently manage a physical data center that someone else setup to have "control" and an Azure data center that only uses Azure VMs "to avoid vendor lockin". I am in the process of migrating all these workloads to containers in a mixed ECS/Kubernetes and AWS lambdas. We generally see 90%+ TCO reductions. Almost 100% of my problems are in that stupid colo.

If I never have to decode how the mail relays are configured, mount a user's home directory, or spelunk through Sys V init scripts/systemD unit files again I'll die a happy administrator.
> kills too many normal cells to be safe to do in living people.

Not an oncologist, but that sounds and awful lot like how cancer is currently treated with chemotherapy and radiation, kill everything and hopefully get all the cancer before the patient dies.

I think I heard about it on 60 Minutes, so... grain of salt there. Information here [1] details the news thread that must have led to the 60 Minutes piece. Interesting how the FDA jumps in to do rare enforcements, cautioning against its use for the risks, when the risks don't sound worse than conventional cancer treatment, and the ACA is also piling on. I think it is suspicious that not only would no one be interested in more research because the drug is unpatentable, but that also FDA and ACA are saying there's nothing to see here, when there is obviously something to be seen. Cancer is big business. I always figured it would never be cured because it is too many things, but maybe it will never be cured because it is too profitable.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichloroacetic_acid#Cancer
I’m curious to learn more about your ideas, but you’re more or less equating a person’s identity to their relationship with social media, it’s not a strong argument.
By living in a country you "sign a blank cheque" for the government to tax you as it sees fit, sort of. "Tuition fees" were always a graduate tax by the back door. This kind of thing goes back to Thatcher looting the GCHQ pension fund back in the '80s. I would say "don't make a "contract" with the government", but even if you don't have a "contract" they can still decide they want to take your stuff.
LTE underdelivered. But it delivered nonetheless. It’s undeniably superior to 3G, which was itself undeniably superior to its predecessor.
Australian judge sends Google for prosecution for not deleting defamatory videos
Oh no, how sad. The jraphics interchange format shaped internet culture as it exists today.
powerful enough to serve a lot of basic websites (blogs, forums, chat .. etc) without breaking a sweat
This is fear mongering by the media. It makes them money to set the public in fear and bates the enemy to do it.

Great world we live in.
Docker containers don't work for most self hosted solutions, since most self hosted OSes are security focused, and use FreeBSD, instead of Linux, in order to get away from some security vulnerabilities. Docker is a pretty large security vulnerability.
It's better than windows, sure - but I think everyone would agree that shouldn't be the bar.
As a js/node guy I would pay money for a opensource "managed" base os image with only 22,80,443 open with app armor/selinux configured and user accounts with plug and play containers for select from (nginx,haproxy,varnish,node,redis,postgres,couchdb)
Well that's kinda good. We in the west have been having a "lack of software engineers" -problem for a decade or two now. Or perhaps it was a "lack of cheap software engineers" -problem.

I hope they won't be crazy bitter about what's been happening.
There almost certainly are more competent hackers exploiting the same vulnerabilities, but we don't know about them because they're not stupid enough to brag about it online.
> ... so you can get the likes

Social affirmation is a common desire. It's not wrong to want social affirmation though. The problem only comes when you either never achieve anything worthy of affirmation, leading you to feel useless, or you fake things to get social affirmation (such as those weird "animal rescue" videos, which turns out to be the owner abusing their animals and filming a rescue for likes etc).

I say, people who desire social affirmation should introspect, and see if they are doing something they like doing or it is entirely only affirmation they want.
i'd guess not.

there are probably a zillion case studies we could look at, but i don't think the UN and HRW and others would be calling for the US to restore funds if they thought it wouldn't help save babies by the thousands (or more).

that 13,000 number of dead babies/children is since January -- so, less than three months.

if that's not a genocide, i don't know what is.

...this report from January:

https://www.democracynow.org/2022/1/14/afghanistan_crisis_de...

the US is basically saying, ok, the Taliban is in power, and is not giving women and girls equal rights, so we'll just kill as many people as we can, including children. if the Taliban doesn't become the type of society we want, we'll just keep killing. this is just what we do.

i think most western-type folks, maybe most folks in the world, want equal rights (or more) for women and girls -- but they can't have equal rights if they're not alive -- so i say let people live, including women and girls, and we'll engage with the taliban and do the best we can to achieve equal rights for women and children.

we don't have equal rights in the US and we're not starving and killing-through-sanctions tens of thousands of children.

well, we do it in other ways, but it's on another level in Afghanistan, and we're largely reponsible.

...this guy is saying much of the funds can be distributed thru the UN directly to doctors, nurses, public hospitals, etc. he says sanctions can be lifted at least with 'humanitarian corridors' of the sanctions, like we're using against Venezuela, etc. the UN says they'll do it as soon as their member states do it -- which means as soon as the US says the UN can do it.

...and the US is still the leader in funds going to Afghanistan, but it's hundreds of millions instead of billions.

...this one activist, Masuda Sultan, said we could just release some funds -- $5M or $10M -- and see what happens. if the funds were misused, we could stop the flow. easy. makes sense to me.

https://www.democracynow.org/2022/2/15/afghanistan_assets_jo...

i also didn't realize how much of a jack this was -- meaning, all the money that the US stole from Afghanistan -- we literally stole it -- we jacked it -- half of Afghanistan's reserves that were in the US. something like that. loco.

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/02/14/bidens-7-billio...

this responsible statecraft blog/org has anatole lieven, who has been quoted a lot on the Ukraine situation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatol_Lieven
Hamrick is an upstanding guy who deserves a lot of respect for the way he’s run his business for over 20 years now. He seems like a one man shop that just never sells out and goes on indefinitely. I guess the software will die when he does.

Startups are all the rage on HN but here is a great example of a lifestyle business that is long-lived and well-respected by many.
My utmost respect. I ran a Linux box at home while I was at university. It acted like a NAT/masquerading server. It was the time when DSL routers weren't a thing. At least not widely available.

But I never had the idea to use it to host internal or external stuff there.

Kudos to you.
That's really not how it worked, the conquered people mostly obeyed the Roman rule not because they were won over with hearts and minds but because otherwise the Romans were absolutely brutal and cruel in their punishment against any kind of uprising or disobedience. Rebellions and insurgencies broke out all over the place and were usually brutally crushed typically with great bloodshed on both sides and any survivors and their families typically suffering one of the many cruel and unusual punishments the Romans favoured.
Of all the cats I've known over the decades, I've only ever known one that would curl up on top of someone's face while that person was sleeping (not my cat). That cat did cause quite a bit of trauma on multiple occasions, but I believe my friends found a solution for that. At certain times, I believe that my friend was woken up by his wife struggling to breathe, and so he picked up the cat and tossed it across the room. Do that a few times, and I think the cat tends to learn.

Of the cats I've actually had myself, only one of them has ever shown any interest in attacking anything related to our faces. It was actually rather terrifying to see the look on her face when she was a tiny kitten, and she spotted her reflection in our eyeballs for the first time. This was clearly a toy she needed to play with. But those damn glasses were in the way, so she had to try to bite them and pull them off. It took us a while, but we discovered that she didn't like puffs of air being blown into her face, so we used that technique to disabuse her of any notion of that kind.

We don't allow the current crop to sleep with us at night, but that was more because as kittens they needed to get used to the new room and the new house after we adopted them, and we have too much junk on the floor of our master bedroom, and we didn't want them climbing under the bed and getting covered in dust bunnies, or maybe peeing on the stuff on the floor, or whatever. These are our first cats we've ever had that we have not allowed to sleep with us at night.

Frankly, the problem of cats sleeping on our face or attacking our face is just not a problem we've ever really had to deal with, over the many different cats we've had over the decades.
Why aren’t they just selling NFTs of stock certificates to raise capital? They wouldn’t need to give any ownership away.
Checking my understanding: Are you saying that the halting problem is computable (if still completely infeasible in general) for all finite deterministic machines

Yes. There's even a practical way to check if a finite deterministic machine has repeated a previous state. Run two of them in parallel, in lockstep so that one takes two steps while the other takes one. If they ever have identical state, they're in a loop. This takes 1.5x the compute power plus 2x as much memory, so it's far cheaper than storing all previous states.

(Some early mainframe era educational interpreter supposedly did this, to stop simple student infinite loops quickly in a batch system.)

Here's a paper on the busy beaver problem which discusses upper bounds.[1] The key here is that the upper bound on states is not computable. However, if you force an upper bound by limiting memory, it becomes computable. But really hard. That paper discusses how very rapidly the number of states grows for that problem.

[1] https://homepages.hass.rpi.edu/heuveb/Teaching/Logic/CompLog...
Seems like DCA is significantly more toxic than other chemo agents, and wasn't justified at the doses used. It might be good adjunct therapy with neuroprotectants or something...but that's an area for serious chemistry research!