skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple I believe has a reason to work on Swift for Linux, and that reason is their considerable cloud infrastructure and various backend services.

I’m sure being able to share domain specific Swift code between client apps and backend would be pretty high on their list of wants.

Also, little clues like the way Xcode generates SwiftPM packages in a Linux-ready fashion out of the box shows that they care at least a bit.

Having a lot of interest in the programming languages, my opinion is that Swift is a damn good one. It’s very high level, supports FP deep enough, has a great type system (that is getting better with every release), great OOP support, native performance characteristics and it still lets you get to a really low level when you need it.

I also like how they took great ideas from Haskell, Scala, Smalltalk, C# and others. I code daily in Scala and Swift, previously had done Erlang, Clojure, Common LISP, TypeScript, Ruby, Python, Haskell, OCaml, Java, PHP, C, Smalltalk and some others. In this list, Swift is now almost at the top.

They need to get Higher-Kinded Types and then it’s going to win the world (just kidding, JavaScript gets to win the world, unfortunately) :)
It's also how HN works. In a comment far below there's a link to a decent controlled experiment completely debunking this claim (outcome using controlled dataset: 40 white to 52 black faces chosen). But that comment is heavily downvoted.

https://twitter.com/vinayprabhu/status/1307497736191635458?s...
So is the environmental movement in America. It’s no coincidence that the EPA came out of the Nixon administration too. I say this as a huge proponent of the Earth and all of her humans, and I have similarly struggled to prove it to people. It is hermetically sealed.
In the UK the flu has been killing more people than COVID over the last 25 weeks. That might change of course, but we’ve just been told this today during an interview with the health secretary Matt Hancock.
>killing a ton of people

its not.

current best estimate of ifr according to cdc :

0-19 years: 0.00003

20-49 years: 0.0002

50-69 years: 0.005

70+ years: 0.054

Percent of infections that are asymptomatic: 40%

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scena...

Which is a good news that so many the cases are asymptomatic and the ifr is so low.

Which is also inline with my own observation, I know almost nobody get really sick from covid.

I still go out whenever I can, still travel whenever I can, still doing normal socialization/gathering as I possibly still can.
That’s a very fair point, thank you.

I do hope that the form factor, “polish” — how much of a finished product the Precursor is, and the possibility of programming/extending it can serve as an inspiration/starting point for future hobbyist mobile tech.

I know that it’s a very heterogeneous mix, but just to note some contemporary devices that evoke “similar” feelings: Panic’s Playdate [0] and the recently crowdfunded Flipper Zero [1].

Maybe all of these remind me in some ways of the Gameboy, electronic organizers from the 2000s [2], pre-smartphone Symbian Nokias [3] (and every qwerty/slide out keyboard device from back then), all of which I grew up with.

But, it also seems like there’s a lot of interest now to create digital experiences that aren’t tied to existing social media platforms, aren’t engineered to simultaneously maximize addiction and profit (through advertisement and the sale of personal data).

Developing towards that future is immensely exciting.

0 - https://play.date/

1 - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/flipper-devices/flipper...

2 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_organizer

3 - https://www.pcmag.com/news/the-10-best-symbian-phones-ever
I can upload the firmware image v1.0.0.4 from my GS110TPv3 dated 2018-10-04 if anyone is interested... I don't think the cloud features were enabled on this one.
I remember I took an introduction class in machine learning when I was a student.

I was surprised how important bias removal was. Preparing the dataset was more than half of the work. And the class was more about statistics than anything else.

It wasn't about racial bias, ethics, or anything like that. More like if you feed too many "5" in your handwriting recognition algorithm, it will will start seeing 5 everywhere.
Linux servers have vulnerabilities that are just as critical but usually less frequently. One that comes to mind is shellshock. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shellshock_(software_bug)
Peter Thiel is a scary person to leave around with so much power. He’s a brilliant technologist and so unconcerned with cloaking his selfishness and will-to-power he seems somethings like a fiction character.

Power in Facebook and Palantir, media and government. It’s certainly relieving to hear Scott argue the latter company is not gathering strength, but he also doesn’t argue that Palantir is impotent.

I am pretty curious whether Thiel has a third chess piece in play. What other industry would most attract a techno-megalomaniac?
Wow, I never expected this to receive any kind of international attention, let alone see it on HN. If this doesn't make me proud of my home country, I don't know what will /s.

Given that the witnesses in this case have a tendency to die, and the DAs that get assigned this case have a tendency to resign, flee the country, or just drop the case, I'd be worried if I were the author.

However, I've got to admit, this entire case and the mafia-like way it's playing out is quite impressive and quite a first for Greece. Sure, as a country we had our fair share of corruption, but I think this takes things to a whole new level.
Bullying happens in most schools, but is there a correlation with skipping a grade? I don't think so.

Personal anecdote: I skipped a grade, and I was bullied. But I was bullied for a completely different reason. And there was one short kid in our class, so when people heard that "someone skipped a grade", everyone assumed it was him, not me. (As far as I know, he wasn't bullied.)
YouTube reverts to human moderators in fight against misinformation
Flu is endemic. COVID is still spreading. This is a meaningless comparison. The only thing we can look at is case mortality and contagiousness, where COVID is 10x higher and 3x higher respectively than the flu
Apache Arrow and MinIO
I don't think that the main goal of TF on Swift is to train models using Swift. I think it's mainly to deploy them in production on iPhones
Military-Funded Biosensor Could Be the Future of Pandemic Detection
> but modifying the CMake files that describe them is excruciating.

I've been using CMake for over a decade and the only time editing CMake files was not straight-forward was when whoever wrote them had no idea of what they were doing and were trying to crowbar a round peg into a square hole.

With "modern cmake", which is modern in name only, everything is declarative, modularized, and straight-forward. You just specify targets, target properties, and that's it. I have absolutely no idea of where all the drama comes from.
FWIW, Horace on Critical Path says that large M&A is just something Apple doesn't do. It's a recurring topic and he goes over the rationale in this episode.

#249: A Sane Amount of Cash
http://5by5.tv/criticalpath/249

I barely understand what Horace is talking about (square hole, round peg) and would only butcher his thesis. Sorry.

These podcasts are in the "think out loud" format, vs finally crafted presentations. So I listen at high speed and rewind to replay the key points.

Edit: Gonna risk it.

Large M&As are notoriously bad moves. Beats was Apple's largest acquisition, which Horace thinks was ok because it probably broke even. (I have a different take: it was an acqui-hire and they got some head phones as bonus.)

Reinvesting cash surplus is also bad, because it's shareholder's cash for them to invest themselves. Also, to do so would make Apple a hedge fund, which is a huge distraction.

Horace doesn't touch on Apple style partnerships, the deep investments into their suppliers. Not quite keiretsu. Not quite monopsony. Definitely not WalMart style partnerships, which is very abusive. Maybe more like defense or auto manufacturer partnerships, where it's more mutually beneficial. Like Toyota does. I would love to read case studies about Apple's partnerships.
That was how I replaced mine, I wanted something new to play around with. Turns out it wasn't much fun...... For now I will wait for WiFi 6E from Ubnt.
> Millions of people have had covid now and so far there's zero evidence that it's significantly more likely to have long-term adverse side effects for the average person than any other respiratory virus.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/long-term-effects....

> Sweden reacted minimally, and it was hardly a disaster of epic proportions: around four thousand people died in a country of ten million, and those were mostly nursing home residents, due to government failure to properly protect the nursing homes. In fact allowing the disease to spread seems to have brought some form of immunity, as predicted, since it's not experiencing a "second wave" like the other countries in Europe.

So far. Sweden was a few months behind the curve with every other Western European country due to accidents of Geography. They may have gotten off lucky, but they are the exception. The Swedish demographics and Geography do not translate well to other countries in Western Europe, even so, the thing here is to compare Sweden with the countries around it and based on that they could have done a lot better than they did.

> After the lockdowns ended the economy has been continuously recovering, even in places where case numbers continued rising after lockdown

I'm not sure if we are looking at the same data but the economy is still very much depressed compared to where it was in March. This situation is not likely to improve any time soon, wishing it so won't make it so. As an employer I too would very much like things to go back to normal ASAP, however, I'm not going to pretend that things are better than they are.
> many people (myself included) are apprehensive

Well yes, a lot of the discussion is around fear of what might happen. Why isn't anyone afraid of what already is happening? Illegal recreational drugs are literally a greater than $ billion dollar a year business in the US alone. I could understand this position if recreational drugs were somewhat uncommon and the fear was that legalizing them would make them more widespread. They are widespread already. Anyone who wants recreational drugs in the US can easily get them.

> many law abiding citizens who otherwise would have never touched the drug may whimsically decide to try it at a rough patch in their life just by seeing it on the shelf at the gas station

They already do. Anyone can try alcohol to get over a rough patch in life. I think a lot of people would be shocked just how low addiction rates are for addictive drugs. Even a drug like heroin that can cause physical dependence, has an addiction rate of about 12%. Let's turn that around. A full 88% of people who try heroin never get addicted. Plenty of people even become physically dependent on opiates like heroin but never become addicted. Think pain treatment and then the thing causing the pain goes away. People successfully withdraw from the physical dependence because they don't have an addiction problem.

> I would like to see advertising completely banned, behind-the-counter only, generic labels only

I don't find that unreasonable. Interesting how that contrasts to the constant advertising on TV in the USA for prescription drugs.
I'd imagine, for optimal timing, that it's choreographed to go green at the time the driver should begin going for the pedal. There'll presumably be some reaction time and engine latency that's accounted for in the dance.
It's not a biased if isn't a result of a human bias.
If the algo picks the spot with the highest contrast for example, that can not be biased it may lead to unwanted results but its not biased.
Focus on the documentation. Experiment with new technologies by using the associated software. Usually a deep dive into the manual is enough. When this isn't provided, there's sources. When neither of those is present, I'm not interested.
You are not alone, I too had some anxiety in beginning of march but over time, as more data and fact come out, now I have almost zero stress and anxiety due to covid. Now my stress and anxiety is largely from the people/government response of the covid.
The war on drugs has a lot more raids in the own territory while the war on terror has more bombings in foreign territory, so for now there are some major differences. However once using predator and reaper drones against citizens without any judicial oversight is normalized, that difference will be gone.
This is so true, the two dimensions allow such a nice simplification of what should be rendered even in UX terms.

What I personally didn't like about it though are the tech specific parts (e.g. xhr and other both require script anyways, as not a single website will work with xhr disabled).

So for my browser project [1] I decided to split it up into "text", "image", "audio", "video" and "other" which I hope will make more sense for most people.

Back in February when the debate about the manifest and requests api started, I started my own semantic browser project which aims to filter out all UX-interfering CSS and HTML and probably won't allow JS anyhow.

It tries to focus on the automation and caching parts that are broken in current web browsers, so that everything is peer to peer, and that other trusted peers can be used to share bandwidth, content, or metadata with each other and that each one has a 100% persistent local cache that only gets refreshed once the user tells the browser to.

If there'll be a need to support webapps later, they will probably be sandboxed in a new window that represents a temporary cache located in /tmp/... in order to prevent abuse of local storage and cookies. I've learned to not trust any site these days, even my bank's website uses foreign overseas-located trackers, which is technically a GDPR violation.

[1] https://github.com/tholian-network/stealth
I guess meth isn't the issue then, otherwise he would have.
Drain company owner here, putting 90s in a sewer main just to make your design esoteric is a stupid af idea. This guy needs to stop doing so much lsd at burning man.
Obligatory Wire reference:

https://youtu.be/otwucZMciUM
Thank you, these are at the very least amusingly entertaining, reaching to educating levels at times.
Yeah that’d be line item 98764 on a list of ignoble things the USA government has done.

I find it hard to believe that Scott believes that sentence. He didn’t even say the most noble government, which is still ridiculous but an easier sell.

Is this sentence just American chest-beating?
That's what flattening the curve means.

When this first kicked off. So many people were getting hospitalised that hospitals were overwhelmed and had to turn people away.

Lockdown happened but still there were workers that had to continue working and other people that didn't care about the measures going out.

A smaller proportion of the population were in the pool of potential covid catchers.

This meant that hospitals could handle new admissions.

Since proper hospital care reduced the chance of death.

The UK government has not indicated that they intend to do a full lockdown intending eliminate covid.
As I understand things, the driver is meant to hold the brakes (red light) to aid in tire changing and when the green signal is given, the driver is still liable to wait for the front jack to drop the car.

In regards to reaction time, an NHRA drag racing pro tree perfect reaction time is 0.400 seconds. (Edit: this was poorly phrased; a perfect reported RT is still 0.000, but it’s 400ms from the amber lights.)

I suspect the F1 teams have figured how to shave fractions of a second of reaction time by pipelining the release signal and the final crew members clearing.
> It's difficult to find usages for autodiff

I guess there are lots of uses in optimisation problems, and in sampling algorithms for statistics. I don't know how easy it will be to sell Swift to people who now use Stan or Stata (or R) and don't think of themselves as programmers.

> In a language with extensible syntax(ex: proc macros), this would sit in a library.

And this would allow easier iteration of different designs.
Well, we live in the age of fake news, and fake celebrity pix, and also fake research.
An ingenue to any field is easy to fool - an expert - not so much.
In effect, the defence against fake anything is a comprehensive personal knowledge base on that subject, be it news, a celebrity or research.
Ask yourself:- do you really think President Trump sold Alaska back to Russia for 10 times what was paid? Not so much.
This SEO BS muddies the water and makes it hard to wade through the crap. Many give up and become flat earthers or antivaxers because they could not discriminate valid data from crap.
Well obviously if Apple is doing it then by HN logic it's good and virtuous and the right thing to do so Google copying Apple here must be good as well.

Ok, Apple apologists, please tell us why Apple doing this is to good and virtuous thing to do.
> I particularly hate my bladder when it wakes me up at Stupid O'Clock

Be grateful, - at least it actually wakes you!

Not sure if it's just age, or other factors but I've certainly seen people who don't always wake up in time.

Your first point also resonated with me and reminded me of this:

"One of the lessons we can learn from history is that people always move on. Sometimes after just a little while, sometimes after years of love and affection. Sometimes unexpectedly, But always.
> Apple obviously is not working on that (fair, they have no reason to do so) and the Swift community also has no focus on Linux, since ... they are in the Apple ecosystem.

Neither of these things are true, fwiw. Strong Linux support is an explicit current goal for Swift, though it is admittedly not all the way there yet. See this post regarding Swift 6 and its goals for wider support, for example: https://forums.swift.org/t/on-the-road-to-swift-6/32862
Homeland Security issues rare emergency alert over critical windows bug
Thanks. Hope you fully recover soon!
Whether you call it Huang's Law or recast Moore's Law to mean continuing performance improvements on the workloads where it most matters, there's definitely a widespread industry interest in promoting "Moore's Law is continuing." You saw it in full display at Hot Chips this year.

And it's not even unreasonable. We collectively used transistors in general purpose CPUs in a way that wasn't most efficient but made it easy from a software and operational perspective. And that's changing now.
2.5 mg methamphetamine daily saved my life.

Compared to dexamphetamine:

- It has less cardiovascular impact (no cold extremities, no excessive sweating, less "fight or flight")

- It has a lower impact on sleep (I can take a nap while under the influence)

- It lasts longer (9 to 12 hours, compared to 4 to 6)

- It makes living a balanced live easier (dexamphetamine would feed perseveration, meth makes switching tasks much easier)

- No noticeable comedown

Some of the downsides of methamphetamine include:

- A much higher abuse potential (however, I have never felt the need to exceed my daily dose. I want to live a normal live, not experience some shallow euphoric bliss.)

- It is unclear what the neurotoxic properties are in therapeutic dosages.

- The social stigma
Text adventure! Graphical adventure with PyGame! Program a robot! (My 11yo nephew has decided that his future career lies in programming Mars rovers.)
If you give a mouse an MRI, he'll ask for a PET scan.
Absolutely right. An observation that became something of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Revenue Model, Not Culture, Is the Dominant Term
I had the opposite experience. The early TF versions were difficult to use in that they required a lot of boilerplate code to do simple things, but at least there was no hidden complexity. I knew exactly what my code did and what was going on under the hood. When I use today's high-level opaque TF libraries I have no idea what's going on. It's much harder to debug subtle problems. The workflow went wrong "Damn, I need to write 200 lines of code to do this simple thing" to "I need to spend 1 hour looking through library documentations, gotchas, deprecation issues and TF-internal code to figure out which function to call with what parameters and check if it actually does exactly what I need" - I much prefer the former.

Having barriers of entry is not always a bad thing - it forces people to learn and understand concepts instead of blindly following and copying and pasting code from a Medium article and praying that it works.

But I agree with you that there are many different use cases. Those people who want to do high-level work (I have some images, just give me a classifier) shouldn't need to deal with that complexity. IMO the big mistake was trying to merge all these different use cases into one framework. Let's hope JAX doesn't go down the same route.
> Blind-spots do exist, as we have seen in 2008. I'm not saying that I know better, but we can't take it for granted that these organizations have an accurate assessment of all the risks, especially when they are making record profits.

Absolutely! IB got caught with their pants down when /CL (WTI crude futures contract) went negative in April. Their system used to calculate margin requirements did not take negative contract prices into account, and neither did the trading software. Margin calls were not issued at the proper time, and traders couldn’t see the price or execute a trade on IB while the contract value was negative. Due to the latter, IB ended up absorbing any losses incurred by customers while /CL was negative. They lost around $110 million.

https://www.ft.com/content/01ee0794-158f-40c5-8bb9-82cf5d5f3...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-08/oil-crash...
> It's python, so you can write your own abstractions as you see fit.

And that's the likely reason why scons projects become cryptic to write, impossible to debug, and unmanageable in general.
That called "anecdotal" not an evidence.
Left and right seem like they'd be a lot more common than whatever the other two moves are, so maybe a 1-bit code code be assigned to one of those, and still do better than RLE.
> temperatures sometimes plunge below minus 75 degrees Fahrenheit.

Sometimes. And the mice are usually hibernating during that time.
The first time I realised how wiped out I really was, was when I helped an older patient -- his bed was next to a curtainless window and I climbed up to improvise a curtain from a bedsheet -- I was panting for air.

Up to that point it didn't register how tired I was, because I was just not doing anything physical.
Learning StoryTelling Can Improve a Podcast
> Java (and C++) have a rudimentary form of access control where members can be marked private ... ostensibly in order to perform validity checks on proposed modification.

This is not the biggest reason I generally mark members as private. I tend to develop immutable classes wherever possible. I use private to indicate what is exempt from requiring API documentation.
Thanks for the feedback on the website.

As this is customer beta, I still don't have good website. Getting my SEO done by a freelancer :-)

As of now, I am not concentrating on the colorful presentation part, but creation of PPT using summarization. This solution is suitable for students and professors to make quick presentations. Doesn't take care of the official format or markdown-like list. Currently, doesn't support images and tables. Need to support these in full version
‘Fifth Girl’ in 1963 Alabama Church Bombing Seeks State Restitution
People want it to be true. Instead they should want to know if its true.
It's easy enough to invent a notation, like

29,0·00

Maybe this new standard notation was born today on HN!