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Because Google devs write iOS apps, presumably in Swift, and want to contribute to the development of the language they use?

Seems like the simplest explanation to me.
>> There is plenty that has already been demonstrated with webasm - video editing and filtering, audio editing and filtering, advanced computer graphics, direct porting of games, etc.

Even for that it doesn't work without some js. The promise was that you can use your favorite language for web development and that's not the case. WASM is now more about the integration with JS.
I'm not sure we need more progressive activism in tech. After the way the James Damore thing was handled I'm starting to think maybe tech workers are safer keeping their political beliefs between them and the ballot box.

I think people should be free to hold any political belief, but are wise to separate work and politics.
... because they also write ios apps?
This reminds me of core memory, which was intrinsically nonvolatile and likely has more endurance per bit than any flash-based storage today. I wonder how it handles wear leveling, since being in a DIMM format means the CPU(s) can write to it far more aggressively than an SSD.
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Thank God. Otherwise this seemed like a very Microsoft/Java strategy.
I don't know much about Swift. Has anyone written in it something they can demo? Can it write gui and web apps? What's the biggest problem it solves and how do you like the language?
In that case presumably Google would continue to fund Mozilla even if they go to another default search engine?
> S3 acknowledges writes prior to them being available to be read (causing a reader who picks up the item to receive a 404)

That's exactly documented behavior: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/Introduction....
Why not? Workers have a lot of power when they are organised as groups. Tech workers especially, since it is such a valued industry right now. If you organised with other tech workers, you could push for change with a lot more success than with other groups, so it makes sense to use that power to get change in every sphere of society you care about. Would you have the time/energy to work as part of all the different groups you care about? Would all those separate groups ever have the same size and power as one big group of combined interests? No. This is a terrible strategy to get the changes you want.

All the important social changes of the past - workplace safety, worker benefits, weekends, overtime, maternity leave, etc. - were achieved not individually by specially focused groups of organised workers. They were done through the actions and demands of mass movements of workers across industry lines. When you say "such-and-such group should only focus on the specific issues that affect them" then you are playing into the divide-and-conquer strategy of the ruling class and ensuring that you will gain less overall in the struggle against them.
Can we change the title to “google forked the swift GitHub repo” or somesuch? The current one is rather misleading!
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Man, Putin must be riding in on his bear and assassinating every single state employee if 'heavy targeting' gets them this result.
Let's look at the top posts today on r/politics:

- Cards Against Humanity buys plot of land on U.S./Mexico border to block border wall
- Sessions: I Can Remember Only the Parts of 2016 That Exonerate Me
- RNC cuts off Moore
- Secret Finding: 60 Russian Payments "To Finance Election Campaign Of 2016”
- Fox News' Shepard Smith hits Trump for 'inaccurate' claims on Uranium One deal
- Site Altered HeadlineJeff Sessions: 'Not enough evidence' for special counsel to investigate Hillary Clinton
- Troll Smearing Roy Moore Accuser Stole Dead SEAL's Identity
- Senate GOP to add repeal of Obamacare insurance mandate into tax bill
- Roy Moore challenged Alabama law that protects rape victims, documents reveal
- If Republicans believe Roy Moore’s accusers, why not Trump’s?
- The FBI is examining why Russia transferred nearly $400,000 to its embassies 'to finance' the 'election campaign of 2016'
- Pence NFL Stunt Cost Indianapolis Police Department $14K

Maybe Putin secretly works for David Brock.

Let's look at r/worldnews:

- Australia's same-sex marriage postal survey: 61.6% yes, 38.4% no
- 'Tobacco at a cancer summit': Trump coal push savaged at climate conference: The US administration’s attempt to portray fossil fuels as vital to reducing poverty and saving US jobs is ridiculed in Bonn
- Russia tried to use computer game footage to prove that the U.S. is helping ISIS
- Trudeau says he raised human rights issues with Duterte after Trump didn’t
- Sessions changes statement about Trump campaign and Russia. “I do now recall”
- Russia used 419 fake accounts to tweet about Brexit, data shows
- Israeli police 'have sufficient evidence to charge Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with fraud and accepting gifts worth hundreds of thousands of shekels including demanded free cigars and champagne from associates.
- Trump Served Shark Fin Soup in Vietnam—A Delicacy Driving Sharks to Extinction: Shark finning is illegal in the U.S and regulated in 21 countries. It involves cutting the fins from live sharks for shark fin soup, and throwing the shark back into the ocean.
- Secret Finding: 60 Russian Payments "To Finance Election Campaign Of 2016”

Man, that Putin is one effective anti-Putin machine.

If it were me, I'd be for more worried as an investor about the virtues of their founders (e.g. Ohanian sacking Victoria then backstabbing Yishan and Ellen, Huffman abusing site admin to edit user comments) etc and how it generally very much misaligns with their original grassroots pre-superPAC pro-Ralph Nader/Ron Paul/Bernie Sanders (before he turned into a Tom Perez mouthpiece) crowd that's its userbase.
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I have a production app (with thousands of users) and we are still on version 1.x since 2013.
Should change the title to "Google has a fork of Swift"
I worked a compiler backend for 5 years. Despite the insane amount of testing, fuzzing, standards tests, etc that we did, there were always bugs coming in, and not always in code that looked dodgy. Sometimes an optimization interacts with another in JUST the right way to cause incorrect code to get generated.

Honestly, I'm surprised that I haven't run into more of them in the wild.
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And we'll start to see more battery-efficient hardware to run those apps without consuming all of your battery. :)

(I'm saying that glibly, but I'm dead serious -- look at what we've seen emerge just this year in Apple's Neural Engine, the Pixel Visual Core, rumored chips from Qualcomm, and the Movidius Myriad 2. The datacenter was the first place to get dedicated DNN accelerators in the form of Google's TPU, but the phones -- and even smaller devices, like the "clips" camera -- are the clear next spot. And this is why, for example, TensorFlow Lite can call into the Android DNNAPI to take advantage of local accelerators as they evolve.

Being able to run locally, if battery life is preserved, is a huge win in latency, privacy, potentially bandwidth, etc. It'll be good, though it does need advances in both the HW and the DNN techniques (things like Mobilenet, but we need far more).
"The personal is political." Injustice cannot be compartmentalized away.
It's always safer to be less political. It's safer not to be political in your professional life, and not to be political in your personal life. It's safer to look after yourself.

If you actually care to act civically, if you care about your political beliefs, then you might want to consider the impact of what you do. What you do in your personal life is likely to be much less socially impactful than what you do at work. If you are not concerned about your impact then it doesn't matter.
I'd start looking for an attorney who's familiar with elder abuse situations and can tell you about your options. If you can gather the right evidence, something can be done.
Also the EFF is aimed at protecting the rights of people who communicate electronically, and the FSF is aimed at protecting the rights of people who use software. Neither is aimed at protecting tech workers.
>who cares?

A significant amount of people with power to negatively affect your career.

Relevant to the mention of bdsm and tech, Larry Garfield a fairly prominent person within the Drupal industry, got banished after his fetlife (or similar website maybe) account got exposed and spread around.
Definitely. It's like a handful of Belgian families and the Brazilians at 3G owning a majority of the company still after all this time. Amazing.
Work and politics are inherently connected though. "Not being political" in the workplace is a political stance in itself - it's taking the position that the current state of politics is perfectly agreeable to you.

James Damore was made an example of, yes, because he went against the politics of the status quo. He made the mistake of not organising with others and building power as a group that challenges the status quo. This is why unionising is important: a demand from a mass worker movement that can pose a real threat to the status quo is the only demand that has a chance of being met.
how is this news ... hey look software was forked on github today!
I understand the theory, but in practice this means if you want to implement a competing platform... you just need to write a Swift target!

Much easier for developers to go check out your platform.

More unification would likely also mean better abstraction layers across platforms, meaning that competing platforms could rely on those abstraction layers.

Think about how nice it is that most devices out there are running at least a flavor of Unix. You have a base-level expectation of how things can be integrated. There are of course differences, but generally if you write your stuff in a certain way you can use it almost everywhere!

And for those who don't want to work on Unix, all you need is a compatability layer to bring over some useful tools. Just get that C compiler up and running and you get a lot of stuff too!

The reason this is different from other forms of platform lock-in is that ultimately things like programming languages don't cover the full stack, so there are "obvious" places where you can swap either your language, the stuff underneath, or the stuff above it.
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After one year at company X (a Bay Area late-stage startup) I believe I deserve a promotion. I'm currently a Senior Research Engineer, and requested a 10% pay increase. The CEO of X agrees that I've been exceeding expectations, but she says she needs data to justify this raise to the board, and keeps pointing to sites like glassdoor and linkedin to say that I'm currently at the correct pay-grade for my years of experience (four + masters deg). Yet my argument is we that should be more subjective: I am worth more to company X than my compensation reflects. What should I do?
I saw them at Fairfax Park in Virginia and it was mind blowing. This nice little park and all these freaks.
They overturned a water truck because all the water was sold out. It was incredibly hot. Then a big tanker truck showed up to hose down the crowd. People were underneath the water trailer trying to get some drops of water. I overheard the truck driver saying "I wounldn't drink that, I justed sucked it out of a pond up the road" It was epic.

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I also worried having two different languages -- Google Swift and Apple Swift.
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Well, it turns out that wages for non-unionized jobs rise in the vicinity of active unions. So even those who oppose unionization may benefit.
Much smaller screens made this a useful function for being able to layer windows, as fake tabs
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[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
If not, they should be. I remember many failed experiments delivering news and the first ecommerce on a wide scale anywhere.
"The OP provided a link that doesn't go to an Elsevier-affiliated website."
very cool, so much better than seeing images constructed from cat and dog faces
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...who?
Never used it but seems promising: https://github.com/NLPchina/elasticsearch-sql
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I guess that's true, so i'll be explicit about that too:
These Google developers are working on Swift because they are part of a team that supports internal-facing IOS tooling.

(there really is nothing down this rabbit hole, FWIW)
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I agree that reproducible builds are absolutely necessary. Nobody's proposing taking those away.

There's a distinction here between how you pick a version in production, and what happens when you do an `npm update` or `gem update`. I'm getting the sense since my last comment that in the Java world the second flow doesn't actually exist. What is your typical workflow for updating your libraries (fixed in the Gradle lockfile) to newer versions? In the Rails world you specify your dependencies in a file called Gemfile, and running `bundle install` fixes the versions chosen for them in a file called Gemfile.lock. In this context, Steve Losh is complaining about the former. Versions in Gemfile.lock are absolutely fine. It's auto-generated after all. Versions in the manually managed Gemfile are a smell.

Does this make sense? I think we have a misunderstanding rather than a fundamental disagreement. I'm actually kinda glad to hear that you had this confusion even after reading the OP (and thanks for doing so!). It makes me feel better about my own writing.
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Oh, yeah, that definitely counts. I was forgetting they'd done that. (But man, they had so much more technical debt around their DOM implementation than others!)
Great news. Now if they can just make it an option on Android and Chrome and someone builds a front end and a back end framework we’re home free.
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It's Prolog inspired. It's weird because it never took off like C/C++ like languages.

The language syntax is small enough that I believe it'll take a short time to learn and get use to the syntax versus other languages.
Don't expect it to work very well, though, given that a lot of the supporting code for legacy addons was already removed from Gecko 57.
Kotlin could just be a stopgap, though. It’s still a JVM language so it’s an easier migration, and from what little I’ve seen it doesn’t add very much other than syntactic sugar for null checks.
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Worth saying and thinking about, but...

Most people have sharp breaks below which they don't calculate; $0.01 would be below mine cause my time's surely at least ten times as valuable (haha) (even if two-thirds of my buys are duds.) I don't calculate whether to waste a sheet of paper writing down a note that might be useless, even though the cost is about 1 cent.

So there's really only one calculation, "should I just buy everything I'm likely to actually read right away?"
I’m not very familiar with his work, but when theory does not align with empirical data, does that not often indicate the theory should be revisited?

I read your link and his ideas seem very interesting. But I would think the real test of his ideas will be if the “law” he has extrapolated from observing historic phenomena like the rate of human genome processing or growth of ISP cost performance can be generally and reliably applied to predict the growth rate of new technologies.

If predictions made using the law of accelerating returns are unreliable, how useful is it?
Actually, I’ve met many very successful people who have families and go to church every Sunday. Most of the successful people I’ve met have families.
That's just twisting words. The time restriction has not been lifted. There are plenty of ways to handle that in the form of instruments like cash-settled SARs.
> Others have pointed out that bubble sort is great when your data is already mostly sorted

It really isn't, compared to insertion sort.
https://users.cs.duke.edu/~ola/papers/bubble.pdf shows insertion sort performs 5x better. I also like Knuth's Quote in TAOCP: "[A]lthough the techniques used in the calculations [to analyze the bubble sort] are instructive, the results are disappointing since they tell us that the bubble sort isn't really very good at all. Compared to straight insertion […], bubble sorting requires a more complicated program and takes about twice as long!"

> running sequentially through contiguous memory is something computers are just great at doing due to memory caching and prefetching

Name one sorting algorithm that doesn't involve purely running sequentially through contiguous memory.
I agree to an extent but let me put it like this. I'm very conservative, to the point that many at my work place would disagree with the way I live and others around me live. So I'm not super open at my work place. I like my co workers and I enjoy working with them despite being on opposite sides of the political spectrum. This is only possible because we silently agree to disagree on those topics by not bringing them to work.
Do you have performance/memory comparisons from using flatbuffer vs protobuf in TF? A quick writeup with how switching effected performance would be really interesting :)
This will again go without noticeable action.

Why? Because nobody cares enough (or believes deeply enough) to make radical lifestyle changes.

Al Gore still have several huge houses. Leanardo DiCaprio still takes solo jet trips across the ocean. The richest people (of all political persuasions) continue to live lives that don't reflect an austere lifestyle at all.

Why should anyone make sacrifices if nobody else does?
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Another Tab Groups user here.

Between Tab Groups and Tab Mix Plus for a multi-line tab bar I have to seriously redesign my workflow.

I could live with Tree Style Tab if it could nest tabs on the horizontal tab bar. I run FF on a portrait 1200x1920 screen and the vertical sidebar takes up too much space.
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Imagine zero-draw "hibernation mode" taking a few milliseconds to enter, and "waking up" in a few milliseconds, too. Apply to mobile devices.
I'm not sure what you're referring to, can you clarify?
Barely faster than NVMe SSDs when fully saturated. At low queue depths and in mixed workloads (especially when overwriting data) Optane absolutely destroys the competition. This is a database dream drive. Only problem is the low capacities right now.
The database is opened immutably, so my guess is you’d either make a copy and update or regenerate it from another source (a la Simon’s CSV to sqlite tool. You could have a symlink that points to the current DB
China flooded the list with non HPC machines, pushing out true scientific systems with several telco clusters. All you need is to run Linpack. These results are no longer useful or valid.
In theory, rational skeptics should be convinced by reading things like the IPCC AR5 (https://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/syr/SYR_AR5_FI... - pdf), or the even more recent NCA (https://science2017.globalchange.gov).

Alas, many skeptics, even on HN, prefer to make general armchair-physics arguments despite the information already out there, condensed and edited, and backed by peer review and hundreds of citations into the literature.

Annoyingly, sometimes these skeptics even then complain that there is not enough information to really be sure, as if they have looked.
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Far as I can tell, no. I'm open to adding an emacs profile to Saka Key. It's as easy as modifying this JSON file: https://github.com/lusakasa/saka-key/blob/master/src/options...
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If those don't cut it try Big Data.
As mentioned above, this fork is for staging patches written by some folks that are part of an internal-facing IOS tooling team.

Nothing more.
They aren't related to or even located organizationally anywhere near Android.
The whole blocker to micro payments were banks and credit card companies (same reason ACH is so archaic even though other companies have much better systems--they decided it's not in their interest to improve it). Credit cards have a flat fee, plus a percentage. That's why small businesses have a minimum purchase price (even though it's against their merchant agreement).

When it first started I figured PayPal would have enabled microtransactions, but I gave up on that years ago. Venmo could, but it doesn't seem like that's the market they're focused on. Bitcoin would fill that niche, but it has a few other barriers.
I mean, it seems like there are definitely some racist assholes working at Tesla just like everywhere else. The difference between those people 'getting it' and 'not getting it' is the set of norms, customs, and values of the people around them.
They were fabulous too but its been painful seeing the band fall apart. First Chris then the rest. They were part of Lolapalooza #1 too. It was the high point of alternative rock I believe.
I hated Souxsie and the Banshee's but when they played everybody was tossing their empty water bottles up in the air and there was something magical happening.

Perry really had a great idea there. A festival done right.
Nothing Shocking. I saw a later Lolapolooza in Raleigh and it was more more subdued.
If you talk about Node I would say that only proves my point that people go to great lengths to use their preferred language whenever possible. Tell them to use JS only for DOM stuff and wasm for things that don't need DOM.
Nobody would prefers a FFI between wasm and js instead of plain wasm if given the option to choose.
That argument would make more sense if they actually were faster, which they often aren't. Last I checked (and I don't keep up with this, to be fair) they still lagged gcc on most macrobenchmarks on x86.
> Neither of these are possible any more.

People in China are replacing memory modules on iPhones. I'd say you just don't have enough skill to.
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Thanks for response. Just curious - seems you saw this and replied in about 20 minutes of the post. Impressive speed. I know about google alerts etc and hacker news is popular, but curious how exactly you found this post so quickly? Someone saw it and pinged you or some automatic way?
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