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Is Swift really the second most popular language since 2000?

Golly.

I have been using Swift for some months now. It is more modern than C/C++, sure, but it really suffers from lack of development.

The ergonomics of it is poor. Especially compared to Rust. Some design choices are quite odd (the definition of a constant defined with `let` for exampe)

It is the only easily available choice for developing on Apple, AFAICT. Hence it is so popular.

As a fresh developer on Apple, but grizzled and grey, I must say teh development tools and ecosystem reminds me of Linux in 1997. Everything mostly works
I think one reason is that easily-breached enterprises have used such language in many forms over the years to try to excuse themselves from being weak on security. So when one credibly gets hacked by an actual state actor, the words conjure up the false claims.
It isn't so much about environment as it is experience. It is incredibly easy to bring in libraries and components that bring the entire jungle for want of a banana. Especially graphing/charting libraries. It's also about focus, the focus is on the feature not the performance/feel.
before trump we used to do this thing called try to cajole other countries into having labor laws. something the TPP would have helped with, for example. MAGA amirite?
IMO the post should link to YouTube's blog post at https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/supporting-the-2020-us-... rather than a news article about a blog post
Believe it or not, there's a whole host of laws around and against foreign involvement in American elections, going back basically forever. Comparing Boeing and Russia is pretty ludicrous.
> It looked all more like investors created expectations of future revenue and they became cold feet if they could meet those expectations.

More likely MongoDB promised future revenue in order to attract those investors and then couldn’t figure out how to get there.
This is an unjustified statement, but also one that admits to tipping the scales upon mere convenience.

"The full source material is what keeps journalism honest," said a man who is now in prison somewhere.
Does this apply for all countries?
Many universities will NOT spend the money. Several guest academic lectures were straight up cancelled at Univerisity of Waterloo because the forecast security costs were too high. Seems like the protest movements have learned Denial of Sevice is effective in pushing their own agendas. What a world.
Oh please shut up. I'm pretty up there on the scale as a free speech absolutist, but this is the sort of shit that makes people have no fucking clue what facism is, and why its used as a pejorative generic insult by all sides.

Reducing an entire movement with complex beliefs to a single talking point is not valid in the least.
That's a might broad brush you're painting with. "A frighteningly large percentage of people have trouble..." would be much more accurate. You make it sound like Europeans have never be hoodwinked by people with agendas. History is rife with examples of charismatic people duping followers.
It is about being appealing to the advertisers. Nothing else matters.
There's logical and physical partitions.

Logical partitions are always handled by the same physical partition. But physical partitions can handle multiple logical partitions.
That kinda sucks as EU know-how is propping up the US and Chinese tech giants instead of local ones.
To me it is not so much about quantifying the effectiveness as it is about qualifying the results. This is not a trivial question as democracy, which is in essence a non-violent system for transition of power, relies on a nearly unanimous acceptance of the process and the results.

So, for introspection, and I know it is not a perfect analogy, but imagine you are at a scientific presentation, and you're gut feeling tells you there is a flaw in the arguments presented. So you pose a question but instead of receiving an answer that might lay to rest your misgivings, the speaker just says "That question is not allowed. Next.". How likely is it that that response changed your mind in favor of the theories presented?
> The last thing we need is anything to encourage the anti-vaxxer crowd and fuel their ridiculous conspiracy theories. sigh

A good start would be to stop proving them right... again, and again, and again...
what a useless comment - should be removed
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But that's rather my point: if you're living just in the larger metro areas, you're choosing to insulate yourself from the rampant discrimination and bigotry that, numerically, forms the bulk of the electorate and shape the cultural mindset. To be clear, that's not a bad thing that people make that choice; I would, were in that position.

If Texas voters will finally vote in someone who is more like Ann Richards than Greg Abbott, I will believe the mindset is changing. Statewide votes for Governor, Lite Gov, Comptroller, and so on are not gerrymandered so a vote in San Antonio counts just as much as a vote in Midland.

(To your first question, I have not lived in Texas for over a decade, but I am the only member of my family who does not so I have pretty close connections to this day.)
> Fortunately there are natural barriers preventing most people with wild ideas from gaining enough support to be a detriment to society.

The internet has all but nullified these barriers. Just look at all the QAnon garbage. That would have gone nowhere 30 years ago, but today a sizable portion of this country believes it because there is no real difference in authority between one Facebook post, Youtube video, or Tweet and another.

>Should I really care if someone else chooses to believe x, y, or z?

You shouldn't, unless that view is harmful to society. I don't care if you think the COVID vaccine has a microchip in it. But if you delay our return to a normally functioning society because you refuse to get that vaccine, your stupidity is starting to infringe on my rights.
"We might choose to protect your saying so out of an abundance of caution, to avoid a slippery slope whereby we restrict too much speech. But the idea they're equivalently valuable things to protect in their own right needs a serious defense."

Investigative journalism revealing corruption.

It might not be the address per se but it will be similarly identifying and revealing information about a persons day to day life. This information would be communicated both while reporting the story, between reporters and other sources, etc., as well as exposed in the journalistic product itself.

Or, given five seconds of thought, that was the first, obvious thing that came to mind.
Given that the Starship / SuperHeavy project is entering the most exciting phase (flights! explosions! first reaching of the orbit! first return in one piece!) and that most, if not all of those exciting things are happening in Boca Chica, TX, I suspect it is not just about taxes.

After all, I am a humble HN user from half the world away and I still spend time on live streams from Boca Chica. If I were Musk, I would move there.
Is it slower than the AWS console? We use both and my subjective sense is that it isn't, but I regularly visit just a couple of specific sections in the AWS console whereas we use the Google console for a lot of things daily. I'm sure front end engineers could find a lot to complain about in the GCP console's design and implementation, but the tl;dr for me is that it works and it's fast enough for the things I need to do. In areas where the console is limiting I am probably working off the CLI anyway (daily operations within our k8s clusters for example).

Probably worth noting as well that for both consoles the underlying APIs are broad, complex, and evolving at a dizzying pace. I can only imagine the technical and organizational challenges around keeping these consoles up to date and improving them where possible.
This is directly in line with the future as prophetically described in Fahrenheit 451.
The link I provided was not referring to the Mueller investigation.

In August, of this year, the a US Senate Committee on Intelligence found that the Trump campaign colluded with Russian nationals, and possibly Russian intelligence.

Independently of Mueller.
He will probably still travel to CA for work reasons (he used to travel 3 days a week to SJ from LA every week)
Why should their algorithm amplify every message? You can go roll your own hosting and host your own video and send the link to whoever you want.
It’s always someone else needing to be censored with you pro-censorship types, never yourself. No one wants to be censored, least of all yourself, so why would you foist it on someone else?

If you’re going to stand up for censoring citizens en masse, then you ought to volunteer to be the first one to be censored.
Judging mostly from the way the US government and Big Tech is handling this, I am now almost certain that widespread election fraud did occur. It does not differ one bit from the way Russia and Turkey handle their election frauds.

I haven't done any actual research on the topic myself, just sharing how it looks from the outside. I live half a world apart and have never been to the US.
You’re right that the whole France’s history program in school (or what remains of it, why was it suppressed in high school scientific section?) is indeed a made up narrative trying to build a certain image of the world, often very far from the truth. It’s especially flagrant by the constant bashing of royal era, and constant praise of the republic with important facts conveniently untold like the Vendée massacre. I like reading things about history on Wikipedia, and things are a lot more nuanced than that. And like with Santa Klaus, once you know you’ve been fooled, you wonder about what else they lied... and why.
I'm stupid in this space, but as an outsider, is this "the end of an era" because it looks like MapBox is simply pulling the tried and true "bait and switch" which has been around forever.

In that regard, "open core" (or open source for that matter) was never a business model — the business model always was bait and switch. Open was the bait.

But likely I have always been a little suspicious of "open source" and likely I am now over-simplifying.
I'd remove this kind of content from a public pinboard anytime if I was in charge of one, so I personally find it hard to object if Youtube removes it.

However, I also believe that any algorithmic removal without human oversight should be prohibited by law. The abuse of DMCA requests should be addressed, namely by prohibiting algorithmically generated requests and by treating repeated bogus DMCA takedown requests in a way similar to commercial copyright infringement.

Just letting companies take down whatever they like in whatever way they want is not the right solution. They are basically "information utilities" and provide public goods of a value to society that goes beyond those company's personal advertisement income.
You say this while half the country believes random people on Youtube and Facebook, refuse to wear masks in a pandemic that is killing people by the thousands.

I was young and believer in open internet once (and still am mostly) but the society as a whole has underestimated how much people are susceptible to being deceived and the cost differential between spreading and refuting false information.

I don't see this as anything other than an extension of anti-spam over email efforts of early 2000s.
Actual war is a completely different scenario. It won’t be a lone crazy person, and it won’t happen before all other options are exhausted (thankfully, this means there is still a chance to avoid it).
There is also musical licensing, where a lot of money is made after the initial popularity. Technically, I have seen more bob dylan songs in commercials and movies than I have on the radio. Hey also has a ton of unreleased stuff in there two, which they probably can make a lot of money off of, especially/sadly when he dies.
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Yeah, I just don't know what to do anymore. It's clear that the idea of good information rising to the top of vigorous discourse among an informed populace just isn't working. We're tearing the country apart right now with lies.

Is this fixable at all? Do we just give up? Do we fight the lies directly by not spreading them? No good options as long as the lies are spreading.

I have a very hard time seeing Youtube or Twitter as the bad guys here. At least they're trying. Screaming about censorship as the civilization falls apart seems to really be missing the point.

If freedom of speech won't save us, what will?
"We want freedom - except for companies": people who don't realize free speech cuts both ways, without irony.
> Freedom for me, but not for thee.

You mean that you wish to require others to say or host the things that you want, and if they don't they should be forced to do so?

That's freedom for you but not for others, not the other way around.
I don’t know if I agree with you, but I think an example of what you’re describing is the TurboTax web UI. You’re shown multiple “loading screens” where things like “We’re looking everything over!” are said to the user. The user is given the impression that some kind of heavy lifting is happening, when that probably isn’t the case. For Intuit, it’s a marketing thing.

I don’t think that is GCP’s problem, though.
And just because courts decide something, doesn't mean they follow the truth...
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And here we see how taxes drive away people.
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It's so excellent that they've streamlined things for us here. I wish we had something like this here on Hacker News, to tame the ne'er-do-wells who disagree with Mother TV.
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"Meddled" is such an ambiguous term and we are part of an international community.

Using such loose terminology, couldn't you accurately say dozens of nations meddled with the majority of federal US elections in the past 50 years?

If you disagree, what do you think the function of AIPAC is?
Under this line of thinking, EU or Britain should think twice about approving Nvidia's purchase of arm. Arm's British's one of the most influential technology company in the world. And with Apple's M1 and other arm chips movements lately, the future of computing will be moving to arm from x86. Arm is not financially strong right now, but there are so much potential to improve it's financials. Make arm remains an British company and build it in Britian should be one of the method to realize this semi dream
They have essentially turned it into a Sports Betting app, and I don’t see why it isn’t regulated the same way as Sports Betting apps are. They’re essentially the same thing, particularly the option trading function. “Customers placing wagers on a time bound event with an unknown, probabilistic outcome, where the facilitator of the bet takes a commission or profits in some other way.” I’ve just described both Robinhood and DraftKings.
I really do love visiting Austin but... Ouch.

https://www.kvue.com/article/weather/austin-tied-for-the-thi...

"As of Thursday, Austin has officially had its 19th day of triple-digit temperatures. This means we have tied the third-longest stretch of 100-plus degree days recorded at Camp Mabry.
Not to mention, every single day this month has been above average. Our average temperature at this time of the year should be 97 degrees."
> We've got to this place because the people with wrong ideas were succeding.

Hate to break it to you, but if those ideas are succeeding, maybe they weren't wrong after all...
>That may be a rather untrusting/paranoid mindset that I employ, but it worked for me so far.

"Worked for me so far" can turn out to be inadequate if you discover that your stuff has been leaking to the bad guys for a year.
Age-related cognitive decline.
>when there isn't a massive coordinated artificial amplification of disinformation

>It assumes that people are rational actors, and have good critical thinking skills, and care to apply those skills

This could always be true in reverse, and pretty un-recognizable no? Does not your statement itself reflect some assumption in the ability of people to be rational actors to determine which debate is and isn't true, artificial, astro turfed, propagandized etc.

Think of for example the Iraq war push, and evidence provided for it. There are always unknown unknowns, and so your "first principles" cannot be assumed to be true

https://commoncog.com/blog/how-first-principles-thinking-fai...
Strange comments for HN.

Elon moving has little to do with California vs Texas. This is totally expected from Elon, who likes to oversee new operations personally and whip everyone into shape.

His "dislike" of California has little to do with it, but he's definitely going to milk it for all it's worth. I thought at least HNers would see through this easily.
I doubt that it would help; I don’t think failing in court will be YouTube’s standard. As so many comments remind us, they’re a private company. They don’t have to wait for a court’s opinion.

I also think no left-of-center conspiracy theory would be thrown off YouTube, even if it failed in court.

Maybe this is great, I don’t make any value judgment. It’s just a bet. Take my money if I’m wrong.
I thought Google LLC, it's parent, was a public company?
Does this same logic apply to financial instruments, cigarettes, alcohol, unhealthy food, etc?
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Is this new? My last Uber order was 3? years ago when my order was over 2 hours late. I contacted support and their answer was essentially "<shrug> shit happens".
> Is it a well educated bet based on science? Yes.

I'd like to see that scientific research that proved that it's definitely permissible to continue filmmaking in LA County, while dining outside a small restaurant is an intolerable risk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-86gfJosHc
Who decides what information is
You might be surprised there... enough friction for the developer experience will open the door to opportunities for other tools/platforms to take root. If the AWS UI/UX was exceptional, there's no way Google or Azure could have gained the footholds they did.
You're looking at this through a lens of "fairness". It doesn't have to be fair. Google doesn't have to decide to either let no lies through, or let all lies through.

It's their platform, their property, they are allowed to do with it as they will. Just like a newspaper doesn't have to print every letter sent in by a reader, or every ad someone wants printed. (This later example is something I have experience with: I was the editor of a college newspaper targeted by a white-supremacist holocaust-denying group that wanted me to print their anti-Semitic ads. I didn't print them)

No one is entitled to the amplification of their views that these platforms make possible. They may be platforms that are publicly accessible, but they are privately owned & operated, and I think it would be a serious blow to the concept of private property to essentially impose forced speech on them.

There are plenty of other platforms that will let someone run anything they want through them. Sure, they're not as big and don't have the audience that Google does, but again: no one is entitled to that Freedom of speech doesn't require anyone to force others to repeat that speech.
Good.

While they're at it, can they please start taking down anti-vax content?
The monopoly that is Google and its products? There are no other viable options, I promise.
This is a mad dash to cash in at an IPO before vaccines get distributed and people rush back to dining in person after a year of pent up demand and their revenue falls off a cliff.
Spam filters worked plenty fine over email.
Martin Luther King specifically said that he wanted people judged on the quality of their character, of which dishonesty is definitely a part.
I think there's pipeline of Harvard Business Review (and similar) articles to the book shelf, and it has to stop. The article has the meat, and then it's repeated/filled/fluffed into a book.

There are services that trim them back.
My own approach to make Twitter useful for me is to separate the concepts of following and reading. The key is to never look at your timeline:

https://lee-phillips.org/howtotwitter/
The flash of unstyled content, even on slow shitty connections, is unnecessary and entirely my point. If you include a style tag with some bare minimum CSS (or even all your CSS) there will be no unstyled flash because the browser's already got CSS for the document.

A 50KB page, about ten pages worth of text (20kb) and the rest markup and CSS, will load in under two seconds on a shitty 3G connection. There will be no unstyled flash and even on super low end devices first paint will happen a fraction of a second after the document finishes loading. You can do a lot of nice styling in 20kb of CSS. You could even include some inline SVG graphics/logo out of that budget.

With compression which every browser supports you've got an even large budget because you can easily see 2:1 compression ratios on text with just GZip.

If you include explicit sizes for things like image and video tags (width and height attributes) the browser won't need to reflow the layout as those resources lazy load in after the page load. There's no popping or things "getting in the way" if you don't write your page like an asshole or pretend you don't know anything about the content ahead of time. Anymore browsers support explicit lazy loading and media source sets. Not using those sorts of features is just laziness or ignorance on the part of web devs.

My first experiences on the Internet were at the end of a shitty dial-up connection with at best a quarter second of latency. Those experiences have stuck with me and I'm appalled and even a bit offended when a "web page" is larger than a copy of Doom. It's especially egregious when a page weighs that much to display a couple paragraphs of text.

Edit: fixed autocorrect typo
exactly - elon musk directly contributed to the rise of covid in the bay
If you have RSUs that were in while you were working in California or a resident of California, the Franchise Tax Board claims a portion of the income as California source when (if) they finally vest. That could be years later, when you're no longer a resident.

If you move from California to another country, and are subject to US Federal Income tax, and don't qualify for an exemption, the Franchise Tax Board still considers you a resident of the state, and as such, taxes you on your worldwide income; as you did not end your residency by establishing residency in another state.
There's a simpler failure mode to pay attention to that the author gets close to but doesn't notice. The original claim is "Companies should not raise capital." Any time you see a "should" claim, try adding this to the end: ", and should instead do X."

Now, when evaluating the pros and cons of the "should not" half, you have an actual relevant benchmark to compare to. It doesn't matter how awful an idea it is to raise capital in some absolute terms. What actually matters is whether it's worse than what you'd have to do instead.

Almost all decisions are about choosing one from several options, so if you find yourself making an absolute evaluation, that's a sort of "decision smell" that you should instead be doing a comparative analysis.
No argument here. I would imagine a good deal of the people who think misinformation is a serious problem on Youtube would agree that the recommendation algorithm is a huge problem.
"Truth has always been escorted by authorities with checks and balances."

This statement stands in direct opposition to the primary founding principals of liberal democracy.
Newer devices (only Pixel 3 and newer, and Galaxy Note 20 and newer) also come with hardware security modules called Strongboxes (like Apple's Security Enclave).

https://www.android-device-security.org/client/datatable?sor...