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by azakai 11y ago
Many developers do these days too, if they work on open source projects, or if they have significant side projects that are open source. I definitely look at open source code of job applicants, and sometimes a part of the interview is askin
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It's a fair question. But, no, there isn't a similar risk. Psychology is among the social sciences. That field is experiencing the reproducibility crisis, and it's been a long time coming. The subject matter is extremely diff
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I'm not aware of any major tech company that does, even the ones with tons of perks in their offices, etc.
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True. If you get TSA Pre, though, then you get something very much like the 90's experience.
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Legally it might, I don't know. Morally, I'm not sure. 1. If they allowed all bots but disallowed all non-bots, that would raise questions of what defines a "bot". Couldn't I write a personal bot that fetches the st
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No, the quote says the original Polynesian settlers brought the rats, not the much later-arriving Europeans in larger ships.
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> they say that stowaway rats that accompanied the original Polynesian settlers to the island were largely responsible for the rapid deforestation that happened there How would rats cause deforestation, especially rapid deforestation?
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I think it's a 1% explanatory effect of the total variance. That means that 1% of the variance in the population (not the size of the effect) is explainable by this factor. (Also, the base rate of depression is far more than 1%, see e.
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That's true, but the effect size here is also tiny - 1%. It's plausible it's statistically significant but completely meaningless. It's possible this study is novel mainly for the methodology, which as reported is the fi
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In addition, even if there is a real effect here, it is so small, and the interactions so complex, that it's probably useless. For example, even if this neanderthal gene happens to causally affect depression by 1%, that pathway might b
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> I wonder why startup speed in V8 is slow though, AFAIK it doesn't do AOT compilation, or is this now the case with the new Turbofan module? Correct, Turbofan does a lot more up-front compilation for asm.js. There is also work in v
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There are three relevant memory modes for Emscripten to compare with here, 1. Normal output, asm.js, no memory growth. Maximal speed, fixed memory size. 2. Memory growth. As the article mentions, asm.js no longer supports this, but Emscript
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Agreed, that's an additional very large difference between genes and memes.
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> Memes are not ideas, they are behaviors. Why do you say that? Wikipedia's definition disagrees with you, > A meme (/ˈmiːm/ meem)[1] is "an idea, behavior, or style that spreads from person to person within a cult
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I think he was right to not focus too much on the "meme" concept he invented, because it is quite different from genes, scientifically (which is what he cares about). 1. The crucial thing with genes is that they are "binary&q
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No one claims that genes will live forever and even beyond the heat death of the universe. The term "immortal" in this context means that it lives far longer than individual organisms. A gene will typically remain unchanged for ma
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It's important to realize that things often seem that way, you are right. But at the same time, there can be real differences between generations, that an easy cynicism would ignore.
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> In middle school and high school, what the other kids think of you seems the most important thing in the world. But when you ask adults what they got wrong at that age, nearly all say they cared too much what other kids thought of the
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Not necessarily, since their GC semantics might differ from JavaScript. For example, if they have finalizers, then compiling into JS isn't an option. Other semantic differences might also make this hard or impossible. Compare pyjamas t
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by azakai 11y ago
To be fair, asm.js already has significant progress towards shared-memory threads [1]. That will finish standardization and ship long before wasm has threads. I would say that the main difference between asm.js and wasm is, as you mentioned
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Some notes: 1. Emscripten/asm.js supports the defined behavior case of setjmp/longjmp. What is not supported is jumping up an already unwound stack, which is undefined behavior. This is somewhat commonly-seen undefined behavior, t
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They could have ignored the W3C, but losing in the W3C would have been a significant thing. It would have shown the web community is taking a stand against DRM. It could have helped further battles against DRM. Instead, by winning at the W3
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The W3C is still very relevant, in particular in the context here. EME DRM, for example, is a W3C spec, https://www.w3.org/TR/encrypted-media/ driven by Google, Microsoft and Netflix. In other words, if the W3C fo
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A lot of useful information from PNaCl has informed WebAssembly, and a bunch of the same developers are involved.
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> I think the Dart team made all the right moves They did do a lot right. But two big things that hampered adoption, I suspect, are * Working on Dart in secret for a while and unintentionally revealing it to the world in a leaked email.
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Why is there "Mozilla" in the hn title here, but not in the article's title? (nor the article body, except for a small aside about the MPL license, in parentheses)
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In general there is no need to write code in mind for compiling with Emscripten. The codebase just needs to be reasonably portable C++ or C. For example, if the codebase runs on both x86 desktop and ARM Android, then it will almost certainl
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> I think you're getting in muddy waters when you're going to let an algorithm decide whether information is correct or not. I don't think that's what she was asking for. She didn't expect Google's algorithm
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I understand the hopeless feeling of "what can one person do." But the individual actions of individuals do add up. We are seeing right now a trend towards better farming practices, with large chains like Chipotle going antibiotic
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thanks!

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