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On Linux you can block off syscalls by number these days. If you only want to expose read and write on some pre-prepared file descriptors you can do that. This leads to the question of what security is being added by the bytecode layer. You could argue that you're insulated from CPU errata, but cloud and hosting vendors have been selling raw CPU access for decades without real issue beyond side channel attacks (patched, also affects you even with WASM).

WASM came out of the web and is needed/wanted by the web folks because they can't rely entirely on operating system kernel sandboxing (Windows is dubious, macOS is powerful but private/undocumented API), and because they don't like the idea of implicitly incorporating every possible device's CPU ISA into the HTML5 spec. Neither issue applies on Linux servers where nothing is a formal spec anyway and the Linux sandboxing facilities are powerful and open.

JIT/interpretation can only slow things down over using native code, so "fast startup" is probably being confounded by the fact that WASM programs tend to be written in C++ or Rust.
We can use whatever software we want as long as we use the specified hardware (the NI roboRIO), FIRST's latest firmware, and comply with the match system and safety systems that enable and disable the bot at different times. Many teams have been using a community Python alternative called RobotPy for a long time despite it not being officially supported and FIRST had no problem with it.
Obligatory Moody Blues song link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlMebMCru9s
> _without saying why_.

That's evidence that the reason is nefarious. And not "the workers won't like it" nefarious, because they don't care at all about the workers opinion.

At best it's "if we say that, everybody will know we are incompetent", what IMO is quite likely the correct option.
What's more infuriating is that they fired an employee who raised safety concerns.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/katherinehamilton/2023/06/21/oc...

(already submitted minutes ago)
Java’s bytecode is extremely simple. You could implement a PoC interpreter in a day if you put your mind to it
I would guess the gap between Iceland and the U.K. for the same reason.
I don't understand how a person falls into complete homelessness, barring severe mental illness or addiction. Don't you have family or friends you could at least stay with temporarily? I moved to a country where I have zero family, but even here I have friends I could stay with if I ended up being unable to pay the rent.
Maybe the solution isn't a blackout, but a spam-out. Instead trying to go private indefinitely, the subreddits should just implement automatic moderation policies designed to suppress valuable content and pass through low-value content (that doesn't violate content policies). For instance: automatically kill any post that gets too many upvotes, allow certain tired and overdone memes but block any new memes. That would kill the value of the community to Reddit Inc. but be much harder for the admins to automatically detect and counter.
I'm not sure how far into Diaspora you made it, but the further you go the more mathematical or physics-based it gets. Computability/complexity theory show up later, there's a large portion of the book dedicated to an alternative physics model, etc
> It's why there is no federal law in America against "hate speech" because there's no objective way to classify it.

I actually think there is an objective way of classifying certain undesirable behaviors. In my own communities, we don't allow comments or content that denigrates other people based on their immutable personal characteristics. These would be things like race, nationality, or sexual orientation. These are attributes people are born with, and to treat anyone unfairly for not being born with the right values assigned to the attributes is fundamentally wrong.

But ultimately that doesn't matter. The reason we don't have federal laws against hate speech is because we as a society have decided it is not the government's place to tell people what they can or cannot say, regardless of how abhorrent we may find some of that speech. And this is a position I will vehemently defend.

However, a guy running an internet forum is not the government. The same expectations and rules do not apply to them, because nobody is forced to live under their regime. Ergo, it is not unrealistic for individual communities to form and enforce their own social code of conduct. What people in community A consider "asshole" behavior may not align with the beliefs of community B, and that is perfectly fine, because nobody is forced to engage with either. People shoose which online communities they want to engage with. People don't choose what country they are born in.
Based on my experience, the capability model for certificate management usually went like:

1) Chaos: certificates requested and installed manually, either in response to incidents caused by expiration or calendar reminders

2) Monitoring: certificates requested and installed manually, in response to noisy alerting by probers looking for indications of pending expiration or other ill-health

3) Automation: continuous certificate provisioning, distribution and enablement either through platform or integration

The Let's Encrypt revolution has taken a lot of people from stage 1 to stage 3 without stage 2 in between.
> The fact is someone with capital to spend can deploy it to anyone, so why should they deploy it to you?

By that logic, people have big families, they have lots of friends. Why choose one family member or friend over another?

> I have been doing some Data Science consulting

I'm not trying to "gatekeep" here. Consulting is, for the most part, an ordinary employment relationship.
> For what it’s worth I’m pretty sure someone googling “abortion center near me” has decided what to do with their pregnancy anyway.

I think it’s hard to speak for everyone in such a way and everyone is different. Personally, I’ve googled this exact thing and hadn’t made up my mind yet.

This is a hard problem to google to solve, but they do make one off exceptions for banned types of ad buys. Off the top of my head, they voluntarily add restrictions for who can advertise for drug names. Not sure how they decide, but I suppose some abortion rights advocacy group could write a letter asking google to limit who can advertise related to abortion.

Although I could see this being a Supreme Court case if the anti-abortion folks are willing to pursue.
Interpreted languages are so improved by lengthy build processes involving compilers, linkers, transpiration, and sixteen different kinds of incompatible package formats, I don’t know why anyone would eschew them.
I assume it's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIUK_gap
> Suleman Dawood was 19.

And his father had half a million dollars to blow on seeing the Titanic in person.
The Lemmy homelab community is up to 1.67k subscribers (https://lemmy.ml/c/homelab) so while people may not be joining a specific homelab instance, they are creating accounts somewhere and joining the community.

Having said that, it doesn't seem very active at the moment which isn't a good sign. Granted, I have no idea how active the subreddit is to compare.
I felt it was kind of telling that they found the two titanium end caps in the debris field, presumably intact, but only pieces of the pressure hull.
I honestly dread the world if this happens. WebAssembly is dog slow. It essentially means we will set back literally trillions of dollars of hardware improvement.
Oh yeah, this also makes pagination trivial. You can basically just give your clients a literal number indicating where they are. So good, you basically get paging APIs for free.
It’s not really a loophole. It has been affirmed and reaffirmed and reaffirmed again. Nothing “sneaky” about it, just the case law hasn’t caught up to the amount and quality of privately-held data.

More entities should be subject to the telco exception to 3rd Party Doctrine.
I believe the author has an extensive background in product development in the area, which is why I was surprised that GGP thought they'd never done it before.
You're distorting the real story to fit your bias. Once the NaNn edge case was discovered, work to deal with that edge case was started.
Probably no 4-bit quantization support? Or they are missing some ops that the tensor core cards have?

My guess is AMD users will eventually get low VRAM compatibility through Vulkan ports (like SHARK/Torch MLIR or Apache TVM).

Then again, the existing Vulkan ports were kinda obscure and unused with SD 1.5/2.1
IBM, are you d*mb?
The Reason McDonalds Ice Cream Machines Are Always Broken [video]
This is decidedly NOT the paradox of tolerance because they refuse to tolerate anyone they disagree with -- even those who would tolerate them.
Here are a couple of quotes I pulled from the USCG press release:

> "debris is consistent with a catastrophic implosion of the vessel"

> "1600 feet (487 meters) from the wreck of the Titanic"

> "it is a smooth bottom", "there is no wreckage of the Titanic in the area"

> "size of the debris field is consistent with an implosion in the water column"

> "there doesn't seem to be any connection between the noises and the location of the debris on the seafloor"
Huh, that's interesting, thanks for letting me know. I don't think I've ever seen such a similar brief outage on HN. Any idea what might cause something like this?
I hope we get some photos of the debris field including intact titanium rings and end caps.

Would make a great long-overdue post for bustedcarbon.com
Second Life 20 Year Birthday [video]
Being unwilling to leave does not mean they won't stop using the platform.

The fact they didn't move while the platform was effectively shut down proves that the category bof service isn't even that important to them.

Just review how many people are saying they're better off having not been on Reddit and now have zero intent of returning.

I'm one....
It definitely qualifies, given e.g. its minimum required node.js version.
That's really interesting! Do you know any other techniques to hijack our brains for performance boosts?

I'm reminded of the classic Feynman story about discovering the different mental models that he/his coworkers used, and how those models affected thinking: https://youtu.be/Si6NbKqYEd8?t=105
I recently switched from an old VScode version, which has only the click dependent matching, to the new version which has it with color highlighting. The difference is that you can match brackets pretty much immediately by glancing at them. It's convenient because it is quicker.
Interesting, and good to know.

I guess that brings me back to my original question - why WASM vs. some existing bytecode interpreter? What makes WASM the best choice, and why does it exist?
Just because we might be tech-savvy doesn't mean we have an affinity for jumping through hoops that we don't think are worth it.
> Looks neat.

Thank you.

> Better call the puzzle training something else than Puzzle Rush though.

Why? I think it's the most recognised name for the sequence of puzzles becoming harder and harder, even if I removed the time limit (as that leads to not learning much :)
> Whether this is in line with the spirit of the GPL or not is another story. But at least as I understand it, it does not violate the GPL.

I'm fairly zealous about Free Software and I don't think this is even against the spirit of the GPL.

Many of the writings and talks from RMS on gnu.org talk about how it is perfectly fine for a company to modify GPL'd software for internal use only and not be required to redistribute those changes because you're not redistributing the binaries. If it is fine for companies to do that and not be considered a bad actor violating the spirit of the GPL this seems to me to be in the same moral sentiment. At the end of the day if you have the binary you have source and all 4 freedoms associated with it and you truly control your computing.
Someone already did: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32498435

Overall the timeline doesn't seem implausible to me.
> the VC investors that control funding for technology businesses

Reddit was held by a media company, Condé Naste. It chose to raise growth equity from VCs, among others. In summary,
This is a really cool idea and something I'd love to use, especially on large discord servers. Something that happened to me just yesterday was a friend of mine and I were trying to play a newly released game together and he was having a difficult to debug issue. The game is extremely popular and the dev team is literally 3 or 4 people. The main support channel is just a discord server, but that's incredibly hard to search for information about bugs and how people fix them.

This is exactly the kind of thing I'd love to see added to the server, so that finding the information in the massive chat channels I needed was easier and could be distributed to others.

If any Struct folks are around, the game is called BattleBit. The devs might be happy to hear from you!
That's a gross oversimplification. There have been multiple vessels that have successfully explored the sea floor.

What set them apart was a distinct lack of SV VC-level "move fast and break things" bullshit and utter reckless disregard for safety.
>The Quest headsets have sold 20 million units

This is kind of my point though. Over a hundred billion dollars invested by Facebook to sell 20 million units over 5 years (all at or below hardware cost). That's still a tiny drop in the bucket compared to mainstream adoption in the sense of iPhones and iPads. You could add up every headset ever sold by any company since Oculus 1 released in 2016, and it would still be less than the number of iPhones sold last year alone, both in units and revenue.

We are still waiting to see whether it will happen for VR. Apple just announced the first true second gen headset, so hopefully that does the trick.
I'm an individual freeloader, but I occasionally report bugs. I understand that I might encounter bugs and/or provide some free contributions to Red Hat, but that's in exchange for a well functioning desktop distribution.

Now, if the commercial product is the stability itself(!), why 'd you expect that stability for free?

Why should Red Hat customers pay for other, non-paying enterprise users?
Oh man, the legal battle when Red Hat tries to crack down on "pirated" GPL software is going to be... interesting.

(that's where this is surely going, right? Or else they're just not going to bother actually trying to enforce this policy change, and let all these 3rd parties use alternative methods of obtaining the source)
I find this sort of thing mostly for fun. Sometimes your code is your code so who cares.
Go for it. I hope lots of people switch to Debian and help support its development. If RHEL isn't compelling enough to pay for, then Debian is great and available for free and that community isn't trying to make a profit. So IMO everybody wins in that scenario.

If you are paying for RHEL and are willing to switch on principle, then tell your sales rep that, too. If enough RHEL customers drop RHEL for this reason, that'll have an impact.

But if your business is using a RHEL clone because you want what RHEL provides, but for free, then consider paying for RHEL. Or go ahead and switch to Debian and see if the costs associated with switching and staying on top of a community driven distro outweigh what you save not paying for RHEL.
HackerNews overall seems to lean deeply reactionary, to the point where apparently "don't be a jerk if you want to participate in this project" is read as a threat. I'm not sure why all of these people think the situation is better without a CoC, abusive mods are still going to be abusive but without any expectations upfront. I just don't see any downside to making it clear that GCC-related conversations are expected to be civil and on-topic and that yes, the things you do and say in public can have social consequences. That's always been true, now it's just a little more plain what the expectations are.
Democracy is losing India, Israel, and maybe the UK and the US.
Do airplanes count?
Turns out that the debris field was only a few hundred meters from the bow of the Titanic which is approximately where they lost contact in the water column, so I suspect their search consisted of diving to the last known location of the Titan and then just going to the sea floor from there.
So in about three years there's going to be a really fantastic TV show, goes on for five or six seasons, but gets canceled without a satisfying ending.

They're re-running our universe in simulation to try to generate a good finale for it.
yes I believe in one interview the CEO said carbon fiber provides buoyancy but is much cheaper than syntactic foam, which other similar such vessels have used
No, advetisements do not make a country innovative, and I never said that, and I have no idea why you would even bring this up.

But if you are a small company in Europe that for example is producing a better and lighter cardboard box, you will have to hire a data privace specialist because you may get sued by some random idiot if you accidentially link to Google Fonts as a convenient way to display fonts, this certainly binds a lot of valuable mindshare and resources and therefore is bad for innovation. You cannot believe how much startups here have to think about GDPR even if they do not collect any data at all. Read the other answers in this thread. There are others who say that linking to Google Fonts is equal to selling your customers' data to Google. What a joke!
Node? Who uses Node for anything serious in 2023? Real backend coding today is done using Bun. And yeah, you can write something in JavaScript, but it definitely won't scale and will constantly throw errors. Pretty much all serious frontend code today is written in Typescript across the board. /s
SMS phishers harvested phone numbers, shipment data from UPS tracking tool
Wish him well. But can't help but think... All that talent, wasted helping Google to shove ads more effectively down our throat.
Immediate implosion if a far more likely explanation because give that we knew it imploded the most likely time would be immediately after the pressure vessel reached maximum or near maximum stress and it failed. The time actually is not the biggest factor; it is the number of cycles the pressure vessel has endured. An implosion after a relatively low number of cycles is consistent with past incidents with pressurization failures.

As was pointed out, the submersible is pretty large and its a essentially a large cylinder which induces stress in the middle. Usually you make deep sea submersibles out of a sphere or spheroid because you don't have this failure modes.

It isn't surprising it failed. They were strong claims that the company did do enough test, rejected safety advice and even had the CEO claim that at one point the titan wouldn't be able to reach the titanic because it (a model maybe?) had experience a pressurization failure. To say nothing of the materials they were using.

Just comically bizarre that anyone involved in the project thought it would somehow survive let alone be safe.
Well his actions lead to several other people dying too. Maybe the ticket they bought has a contract that exempts OceanGate (tragic name for a company going through their own #OceanGate a la Watergate) from any liability, but I hope this company gets annihilated in court with criminal and civil penalties.

Slacking this hard on safety for a submarine engineering company should not be tolerated in our rapidly advancing industrial society.
Sounds more like it imploded on the way down and the debris just kept going in about the same arch, landing 1600 feet from the titanic.
Possibly, but arguing against that are three factors: 1) the sub was tiny and its possible it wasn't actually loud enough; 2) the sub was at a depth that SOSUS doesn't listen at and sound propagation underwater is very complex; and 3) there's a lot of other potential sources of noise underwater, including both mechanical like ships and biological. Even if they did detect the Titan's implosion, there's enough sources of doubt that three days ago it would've been difficult to say definitely that it was gone.
I remember my dad telling me years and years ago about an arbitrary function generator that they used at university, where you had an oscilloscope with a cardboard mask representing the function's graph in front of the screen, and a light sensor in a light-tight funnel that controlled the spot height. When light shone on the sensor it would reduce the input voltage, and so the spot would trace the top of the cardboard mask.

This actually works quite well!
I think for vanilla GUI where you only need readily available vanilla components, Java is fine. But I suppose you would be in for quite an adventure if you intend to do a lot of highly customized user interfaces. The curse of JavaScript is that you can readily devise newfangled componentry so easily that as a user, you end up with all sorts of unpredictable things where straightforward tasks become much harder thanks to endless gadgetification and whizbangery. The idea of "standard" flew out the window long ago.

It would be exaggeration to say QWOP has become the new normal, but only by so much...

Eventually we'll get tired of this and straighten up, I'm sure. Maybe menu mnemonics will make a comeback (they really are a good idea).
I often wonder if a given manifestation of Poe's Law[0] is intentional. It seems not in this case, but damn if this isn't real.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
An offline reader does sound pretty nice. I have to travel for work quite a lot in the Berlin Metro and often loose connection there, so a way to cache stories before would be great
> People are given power with the expectation that they wield that power responsibly. The purpose of the visibility feature is to allow moderators to create private communities, not to shut down thriving public communities as a form of protest.

For a decade, reddit's message to mods was that this was our community. And we could institute rules as we see fit. If the system allowed it, we could do it.

That was obviously just propaganda and a blatant lie.

> If a cop shoots an unarmed suspect, they will get punished too. Would you defend the cop by saying “why give a cop a gun if you punish him for using it”? The cop is given a gun with the understanding that they only use it to shoot dangerous suspects; a cop that violates that expectation will have their gun taken away.

The fuck? Are you seriously comparing state sanctioned violence to a online glorified bulletin board? Just wow.
Yes, if this other person I know from the internet had more mental or physical pain I would be happier.
While the US Air Force was part of the US Army until after WW2, the US Navy never was. And it is the Navy that operates ships, subs and such.
Compile what? A whole Debian distro with a Linux kernel and all 7000 packages?
Oceangate Statement, “We now believe that [all crew] have sadly been lost.”
The trend is to put more and more things into browsers and presumably WASM will have access to all that. But, yah, seems like a long way off.
That "overwhelming support" was likely brigaded by Discord as well as other subs, linked below.

Some people set up a Discord and were posting which subreddits had polls going on regarding staying dark or reopening, and their members spammed the polls with "overwhelming support" of staying dark, even though they weren't the actual users of said subreddits.

https://old.reddit.com/r/HistoryMemes/comments/14ae739/this_...

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