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More information on the group hosting the hackathon:

https://yimbyaction.org/about/

It looks like its intended to work on anti-NIMBY (Not In My BackYard) solutions; So YIMBY stands for "Yes In My Backyard"

From the conversation in the hacker news link, it looks like base122 gets the increased efficiency from using unprintable control characters, which is incompatible with base65536's explicit goal of only using printable non-whitespace characters in its output.

That's the point. a WASM app has access to the same Web APIs that JS does, for the most part. This was in response to the claim that WASM only gets to work off of a limited api, not an argument as to why WASM is an improvement over JS.

Libraries like jquery are not the target use case for WASM. Its intent is to make large applications viable on the web, like something you'd normally install on your computer.

Could you elaborate on how you're using WASM in your full-time job?

I can't speak for anyone else, but for me personally, the deep integration with Google is a feature for me. Almost everything I do is on Google (email, domains, drive, Cell Carrier), so having the deep integration with Google on Chrome makes my life that much more convenient.

I got into chrome as a teenager, though, when my dad switched from firefox to chrome due to Chrome being apparently faster than firefox at its debut.

The entire account is marked dead. I had to "vouch" for the submission to get this thread to show in the first place. I'm not sure why they were hellbanned as this is the only submission and its very much a valid "Ask HN post".

This was previously noted on hacker news nearly 3 years ago, but didn't stick: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9551613

Previous discussion when the extension was posted in hackers news (while present): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9531941

Would the teleported "you" be any less "you" than the "you" that wakes up tomorrow? Or after you've replaced all your cells with new cells?

They also "DON'T NEED" any of the snacks you presented as alternatives. But regardless, I never claimed anyone needed it. There are few things in life that are truly "needed", but there are many that are wanted and/or provide a significant improvement in life quality.

Soylent doesn't fill a separate need from normal food, it fills the desire for a more efficient vehicle of nutrition than normal food. For example, I use Soylent not as an "I'm too lazy too make food" but rather as an easily replicatable nutritional base that is easier to customize to my nutritional needs and preferences than any other option out there that I'm aware of (there may very well be something better out here).

Their success is the result of "magical marketing", but of filling a niche desire of the market. In fact, Soylent didn't even do marketing for the first year or two of its existence. Rinehart just started experimenting, realized it hit a nerve with the hacker community, and created a product that appealed to the demographic that responded to his experiment.

All those examples you've mentioned fill a very different niche than what Soylent is filling. Most people on Soylent aren't looking for something to keep them from getting hungry until they get a more balanced meal. They're looking for a quick, healthy, balanced meal. Soylent fills that desire, your examples do not.

Having confidence and trust in your code, and having less surprise runtime bugs in your code would naturally lead to a more enjoyable coding experience, I'd imagine.

It would only be better if they're targeting English-speaking blind people.

If Ramen were nutritionally complete to a reasonably modern understanding of Human nutrition

There are soldiers that have specifically opted to use Soylent over their MREs. I haven't heard any negative feedback from the ones that did.

On a side note, disregarding experts is most certainly not what Rob Rinehart is doing. They specifically only regard expert, peer-reviewed literature as authoritative sources for formula changes. Trying to depend on your own analysis is a poor substitute for standing on the shoulders of giants.

To prosecute your stuff, they still have to confirm its existence. You don't have to prove it doesn't exist.

Your question was how do you defeat the 5$ wrench, not how do you tell them tax-man to f himself.

If state actors use the 5$ wrench, that's illegal and consequently you have the defense of the courts to counter that behavior. Civil forfeiture is dependent on being able to "prosecute" your stuff, rather than you. So if they can't seize it, they have to go after you directly, which puts the burden of proof on the prosecution to demonstrate that the money is unlawfully possessed. The fundamental principle of the US court system is "innocent until proven guilty", so you don't have to prove what your income is, they have to prove it. You only need to counter their claims.

He's most likely referring to this XKCD comic: https://xkcd.com/538/

Given that the previous comment is referring to state actors, you have the courts to defeat the 5$ wrench.

For more direct criminal elements, you can make it difficult enough that its not worth them going through the effort to use the 5$ wrench and wait while you have to fetch the key. Beyond that, you're no worse off than you were versus carrying cash. The only thing electronic cards might have advantage over this is many provide fraud protection which will refund/void fraudulent charges.

As an anecdote, I was able to predict my wife's results on the test, down to how strong her leanings were in each category.

I think its a mildly useful categorization which allows a simpler and more coarse view of personality than the full spectrum of data would normally allow.

Could you explain the joke for those of us who don't?

We've already had a few chatbots pass a turing test. Just none that are particularly sophisticated. One in particular just acted "cheeky" to throw off the other person.

If he has access to a smartphone, there are some coding environments that run on the phone. No need to run the code in such a roundabout manner.

To my understanding, its just a number of verses that express things in the same kinds of phrases we use today (e.g., "the sun stood still", "the sun rose").

Unless google has changed paths recently, I'd imagine that the additional support is just hardware+apps. I don't think they modified the OS in any way exclusive to the Pixel. The same OS software will likely be available to any other OEM shipping that version of nougat.

You can choose any android you want, even if its not a Nexus/Pixel.

It just might not be as good, because its not controlled by google. But, I do think that argument died a long a time ago because of the cruft OEM's have been adding to android and the common refusal to upgrade phones (though that has been getting better lately).

"Can the president outrun a cheetah?" is not the same as challenging the president's qualifications as president.

It is challenging the idea that the president can outrun a cheetah, however. So, "Can science solve X?" is not the same as "Is science effective?".

I use the Nexus, which runs stock android by default. This new pixel phone will probably also do so, being a direct (ish) google phone. I think its because if the cruft 3rd party OEMs have been adding that google has been making these phones.

So, yes, you can buy a device with stock android. It just has to be a google phone, not a 3rd party for the most part.