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Ironically Kubernetes started as Java and was re-written in Go, as some Go enthusiastic devs joined the team and pushed for a rewrite.

How successful Kubernetes would have been if the rewrite had not taken place belongs to what-if guessing.
You would get a lot of false positives, meaning apps that legitimately need the location. For example navigation apps or unfortunately apps on Android which use Bluetooth.

This really annoys me, because the dialog looks the same for apps that want to use GPS data and apps that use Bluetooth, and there is no way to grant just Bluetooth permissions.
I presume they made a big push to integrate Whatsapp/IG and Facebook (on a technical and branding level) to make it harder for anti-trust to break them up later.
I think the whole "legitimate interest" checkboxes that you can object to are the best example.

Like, if you have a legitimate interest (you need my address to do deliveries to me), then you don't need consent.

But clearly there's no legitimate interest in this case, it's just a dark pattern to get more data.
They should remove the ability to invest self-directed IRAs into options. This socializes the risk (i.e. someone with little or no supplementary retirement income is going to be a burden on the rest of us) while privatizing the gains.
Yeah, I watched the story ran about it last night, and I was honestly astonished at the validity of assertions which were made, maybe it's my youth but I cannot imagine this explicit choice of misnomers and mischaracterizations to capture peoples eyeballs would've flown a couple decades ago.
It actually does use the system calendar, but for todos, it only imports from a single list in Reminders, which is the same as Things 3. This makes me think it might be a limitation with Reminders' API or something.
But if the sole act of forcing app makers to use Apple's generally more private and secure payment system is anticompetitive, then how does the consumer choose Apple as the mediator of their relationships?

Where is the consumer choice for that? I ask because I don't want 3rd parties selling insights from my financial data. Of all choices that a consumer actually wants, it would be the ability to control the apps (i.e., sideloading) running on their device, as opposed to have more control yielded to app makers.
You're completely right but I am "flipping the tortilla" on this one and thinking, it's great that they're just spitballing stuff, it's bound to eventually find something truly interesting and/or useful! (in n+1 time but I don't mind!)
Maybe they would fare better if they were journalists rather than activists and propagandists...
While I agree with this in terms of users, I think that their reputation does influence how they are treated by regulators, law makers, and law enforcement. Being considered a bad actor and habitual liar by the government is problematic. I was working at Microsoft during the whole "DOJ says Microsoft is a monopoly" madness, and I can tell you that it had an impact.
It bothers me when media reports on somebody’s (or a company’s) reputation, like it’s the weather or something. The media is entirely responsible for somebody’s reputation. Grassroots rumors or gossip can only have very limited spread, and nobody puts much stock in them if the media contradicts them. If the media has now decided that Facebook has a bad reputation, that’s how it is, since the media is the entity defining reputation.
No, the things they post on their own forum!

https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=17442#p12769...
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=15168#p109681
Out of curiosity, do you regularly watch OAN and do you have an example of what you would consider "the other side of the coin" today?
Maybe. Schools are workplaces. The suspect was 18, according to CNN (first link on Google) so I think it was a student. Anyway, it could be (probably is) both. They’re not mutually exclusive categories.
Hahaha. Well expressed. Any article about husbands could be equally criticized (and should be).
I did say "more or less" and "modern". Who's heard of SNOBOL4 now? :) My guess is that every other language that got AA's got them by way of influence from awk (or something else that got them from awk); awk itself may have gotten them from SNOBOL4 though.

But ok, we can at least say that awk is the oldest programming language to have associative arrays that's still in widespread use. (Yes, I'm hoping that someone will argue for SNOBOL4's current widespread use. :) )

> However, from the standpoint of manipulating strings with regular expressions, AWK introduced the concept as far as I know.

Two can play at this game! `awk` is really a successor of `sed`, which is all about manipulating strings with regular expressions. sed maybe isn't turing complete though (but someone's gonna prove me wrong here too) or at any rate not convenient to use in as general a way as awk.
While I use scripting languages when needed my main languages were always compiled with static typing. And I did not need debugger for hacking code. I need debugger mostly for tracing my own code when I have some bugs mostly related to algorithmic errors, not with the program blowing up on me.

I did not program in Rust so I can not really judge the language but I doubt that it is so nice and expressive comparatively to modern C++ that suddenly the types of bugs I am hunting will magically disappear.
"I also sincerely believe the UK will also likely rejoin the EU proper" Really? Assuming there's even a UK in future and it hasn't fractured into separate countries, why would the EU ever have us back after the enormous amount of trouble the UK (well England, to be fair) has caused? It only takes 1 EU country to object...
It's not too surprising. How can anyone trust a journalism that has chosen to prioritize advocacy over the nuts and bolts of reporting? Fox news was the first -- it's all Fox news today.

See https://www.city-journal.org/journalism-advocacy-over-report...
> the majority of mobile phone owner's

In some circles, maybe, but not here in the Netherlands (+/- 60%). Worldwide, the majority of phone owners still run Android.

This is one of the key arguments people use in Apple's defence, because the bigger their majority share, the quicker anti-monopoly laws would apply.

I agree with your point, though. The Apple/Google duopoly hurts the general public to ensure the profit margins for these companies' shareholders. Those with neoliberal convictions might not agree with me, but I believe that the free market needs regulation to prevent problems like these.
It's not like the web has a high entry barrier, how come these embedded systems developers turn web developers that are so great haven't made anything? Am I missing something? Are there secret web apps that are oh so good but just not darn popular enough?
Pretty much. This is the next generation version of "This is extremely dangerous to our democracy"^1 level of collusion to push narratives.

1 - https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZggCipbiHwE
When I was in high school, every teacher before every test or quiz would clear all of the stored programs on our calculators. A lot of the other students were upset that they would lose all of their games!
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Yes that article, sponsored by Cambridge Analytica, does play it down :)
> 68k assembly coding was pure joy because of its elegant and consistent instruction set

That's maybe a little spun. The separated address/data registers (there are two kinds of registers, and memory operations need to use one from each to combine to a final address) played hell with optimizer strategies for years.

In fact 68k compiler output was significantly sub-par pretty much throughout its lifetime. The "cobbled-together mess" had (post-386 anyway) a significantly more orthogonal instruction set and was just plain easier to optimize, even for humans.
> There was criticism of the democratic deficit. Now we have Ursula von der Leyen running the show and (figuratively speaking) no-one is quite sure how she got there. There was criticism that the EU was excessively bureaucratic, litigious and slow-moving, and that member states were fair weather friends. Then we saw the handling of the COVID/vaccine and immigration/refugee issues. And the more extreme predictions of British life as we know it coming to an end haven't happened either (at least not because of Brexit).

Much like how criticism of Darwinian evolution doesn't automatically support arguments in favour of creationism, let alone "prove" it - neither does (quite legitimate!) criticism of the EU automatically make a case for leaving the EU. My impression is that those newspapers were basically making that argument: "the EU sucks, we should leave" - it was never "the EU sucks, let's make it better".

> It's perhaps worth remembering that the older generation who voted more in favour of leaving in the Brexit referendum were much the same generation whose younger selves voted to stay in once before.

Indeed, and this does perplex me - but again, consider that the arguments for Leave were nothing like the arguments for not joining the EU back in 1973. Also, don't forget the public's near limitless capacity for political amnesia.
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That’s the thing though, I use apple IAP in my app and I don’t have any clue what the user’s email is. They keep it secret. It’s to the point where I actually advertise that as a benefit of my app, and people mention it in reviews as a reason they chose my app over others. People are tired of their information being sold up the river.
>No more about:config

So few realize the importance of this. Some say "well only in Android" or "use nightly". The plan is clearly to incrementally erode freedom to a final state of dysfunction under the guise of gaslit improvements and false switches. They actually argue that removing about:config was for our own good. Printing webpages to PDF is also something we're supposedly better without. But we shouldn't complain, for they've abandoned the crusty old obsolete concept of configurability for brave new ones. Pocket, guerilla advertising, binary over variety, cloudflare, dom.battery.enabled, privacy.resistFingerprinting.alwaysdisabled and an emoji level of privacy. Why design good software when they can design good users? They're not all bad though. At least they saved us all from the terrifying overwhelming burden of RSS, right?

They're attitude is that, yeah, the internet is becoming a roiling cloaca, which is accepted and inevitable, yes? So rather than resist and try to improve it, adapt and contribute to it's descent.
> physical dependency is different than psychological dependence

I do not disagree. But. Let's see the heavy facebook user at hours 18 and 36 of abstinence, and at week 1 and 2 ... The psychological rewards have physical side effects with physical actions, too.

This is not the same as life threatening DT's, but its also real physical effects.
Facebook's MAU count dropping closer to heroin's would be a big improvement for everyone's well-being.
The donation goes to Mozilla Foundation, not to its subsidiary Mozilla Corp, which actually develops Firefox. You're basically donating to activist blogging, not browser development.
The best social safety net in the world can only protect you so much from the needs of your own children, absent some sort of young ladies illustrated primer taking over. So in that since parenting becomes more important to parents human thriving when other struggles die.
sure. I wasn't arguing for equal importance, or equal need for policy-level decisions.
WOOOSH The point is that it's terrible advice. My point is people who espouse how smart they are about something should put up or shut up.

1.) there are a multitude of ways to you can do this on a decentralized exchange DYDX as well. Or a Mercantile exchange like BITMEX.

2.) Funny you should bring up Bill Akman he publicized his short position, and another investor took a counter bet to him. That investor so happened to do it out of (speculated) spite. So not really a good example but since we're here Herbalife was investigated and not found to be an MLM, although I'll grant you that the SEC came RIGHT up to the line in calling them an MLM scheme.

3.) I'll move past the criminal enterprise portion as that's for courts to decide. With respect to binance specifically there are multiple ways to go short I'll post the straight forward versions. Cash settled perpetual swaps, Coin settled perpetual swaps, Put option contracts, Margin shorting. The way I would recommend people short bitcoin is cash settled perpetual swaps, you will be paid out as there are insurance funds that are VERY LARGE you can see what they are, that will pay out winners should losers positions can't be sold to the market.

4.) So does every exchange with respect to the market they serve, the smart exchanges actually want to be price neutral as they view as a business, both FTX and Binance CEO go on the record about this.

So you don't want to short BTC but you still think it's a ponzi scheme ... report it as such to the SEC. Accept that's a loss cause because bitcoin is deemed as property, furthermore a commodity and thus regulated by the CFTC.

I'll finish about the crooked casino portion... you can do this in a decentralized fashion with DYDX or another de centralized exchange. EVEN IF you didn't want to take the time to do that. RIGHT NOW you can go to IBKR and take a short position on the greyscale trust which is essence a short position on BTC. FURTHERMORE if you think these exchanges are crooked and are doomed to fail. Take a short position on the exchange it self. Binance and FTX have their own coins (which are probably securities) that you can take short positions out on.

Final words, how long must a market remain irrational before your prospectus is wrong about the market being irrational? The paradox is if you answer infinity, you may be "right" but you're still wrong.
It's the same thing with most tech these days. Just try thinking of examples for voice assistants or any new tech.

Most of it has this weird "Friends" but with a "rich millenial from SF" flavor marketing to it. Everything is made to feel super-important and productive, yet casual.

It feels like they have a single persona:

"[Dave/Alice] lives in SF. After a busy day hustling, they chase their side gig doing [photography/art/music production]. Later on in the evening, they contact all of their friends using [platform] to go downtown for a [coffee/sushi/craft beer]. While on their [Uber/Lyft] ride, they check the [stock market / sport scores / wikipedia trivia].

Back home, they use the voice assistant on [platform] to dim the lights in their studio apartment and watch the newest TV show on [streaming service]"

Before bed, they finish the day by [meditating / reading a self-help book / listening to a self-improvement podcast]."
There is an actively developed python to ocaml interop library for purposes quite similar to yours. I have seen demos where ocaml and python are used within the same jupyter notebook

https://signalsandthreads.com/python-ocaml-and-machine-learn...

https://github.com/thierry-martinez/pyml
Mozilla please just give us a Firefox Pro that costs a few quid a month

I make basically all my income via Firefox indirectly.. if you want a slice just ask for it, don't be creepy
Absolutely not. Media likes to think it can control popular narratives like it can turn a dial, but it can't anymore -- due in large part to Facebook.

Social media has been under attack from mainstream media for a decade, ostensibly due to concerns over social media ranking and interest-based advertising, but actually due to social media disintermediation information exchange and obviating the role of traditional media as gatekeepers.

I can't bring myself to be upset by this development. The social problems arising from social media are concerning and demand discussion and maybe some kind of fix --- but it remains a good thing that reporters and editors can no longer unilaterally set the agenda for society. Power is only safe when it's divided and diffused.
https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2021/10/6/22712365/twi...

They say hacked
I don't disagree with that. I'm not suggesting that harm is comparable, only structure. You can deal with DisneyLand ice cream by ignoring it. Apple, not necessarily.

That said, if you were to deal with DisneyLand ice cream...
I don't think that you have a sleep disorder, and so your anecdote isn't even usable as anecdata for those of us who do (including the top-level comment, which reads "I struggled with sleeping for 20+ years" - this isn't just "occasionally sleeping poorly").
Anytime I am forced to navigate a maze of bureaucracy and/or paperwork, my mind goes to this movie. It seems more relevant with every passing day.
The Julia programming language is an interesting example of a language addressing a niche. It originally focused on scientific computing - the ease of a scripting language (like Python) and the speed of a C or C++ program.

More recently, Julia promotes itself as a general-purpose language suitable for non-scientific domains too. However, the association with scientifc computing remains strong. It's too early to say if that perception among developers will change over time.
They guy who invented it, or discovered it, won a nobel prize! I don't think they will be giving a nobel prize to the guy that created the shitty vaccine...
For sure. It lasted longer than it should have, and it was more severe than expected, but new people filling in the cracks by working crazy hours is kind of built into the structure of the company. Thankfully, I cleared that hurdle, and I have a lot more control over how much I work.

I actually picked the job because of work/life balance, and it's been really good the last few months. But, you're absolutely right, and I appreciate the concern :^)
And who do you think are members of those standards boards/committees? Employees of corporations!

Influence is not always overt or malicious, but it happens. For example, a corp wants a new feature in C++ stdlib. They hire someone (or get an existing employee) to build the new feature, submit for adoption to the standards committee, present at conferences, handle RFC feedbacks, etc. until finally the feature is accepted.

It's exactly how the process is intended to work.

In reality, usually they just release their own implementation with non-standard features and popularize them, resulting in either compiler lock-in or de-facto adoption in the standards as other compilers adopt them as well.
A friend had this enabled by default with no user interaction.
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Not all of it.

> Of the three layers, only the UI layer is closed-source. This means that roughly 92% of the browser’s code is open-source coming from Chromium, 3% is open-source coming from us and only 5% is our UI closed-source code.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-browser-open-source/
What is a 3 dimensional star? A star is a 2D shape, so this statement is ambiguous
> Even Microsoft of 1998 didn't become as toxic to solid tech talent as Facebook risks becoming if they keep this up.

Idk, I think being the only big tech employer in Seattle at the time helped keep them afloat. Telecommuting was still nascent at the time and moving is always daunting. Today the environment is very different, Facebook is in the heart of SV, but even more importantly, now everyone is suddenly totally ok with indefinite remote work, so you’re no longer limited by not wanting to move, the only thing holding you back is $$, and at a certain point all the money in the world isn’t gonna make you fe good about what you’re doing.
It's not clear which company you're referring to, but

- Instagram was at one point a startup. It's common for startups to write in a scripting language to optimize for speed of adding features. Then if you grow or get acquired, the scripting language often eventually gets replaced by a language more optimized for maintenance cost, safety, and/or speed.

- Data scientists often only really know scripting languages, and at any rate scripting languages are useful for prototyping algorithms that need to change daily. Hence a lot of hedge funds use Python. For code that is stable and really matters for performance purposes, it's common for funds to use C/C++ or even FPGAs.
Wow, a lot of hate for the guy in this thread.

My understanding is basically just that he had a consulting company and made a good salary, which enabled him to save enough money to live off a 2k per month salary for 2 years if need be.

He then quit his consulting gig and focused on the product full-time, and since a product rarely makes lots revenue from day one, he cut his salary to the mentioned 2k so that he has a 2 year run rate to get revenue. That's what he means by focusing: he can focus his efforts on getting to revenue instead of mucking about getting distracted with "shiny new stuff" that developers love.

The "skin in the game" signal to investors is, what I think many investors would like to see: The investors invest their money to grow the company, not to pay his 110k/year salary. By paying himself a meager salary and (likely) spending the rest of the investor money to build the company, the incentives are aligned.

I'm not sure I understand why the blog post hit the front page of HN, though.
Thanks :), the FAQ is on the way too.
How to address the situation in Hong Kong? The same way the CCP approaches all situations: Have the local government set up some huge development loans. What could possibly go wrong?
Much of this is the media's own doing but they're not alone: politicians have been drumming this beat for decades. They don't want voters to trust the media because that's the primary means by which they are held accountable.
So...having actually worked for companies in aerospace making rockets that leave the planet...

The cost per kilogram to orbit today is likely around $2000. That same kilogram landing on the moon (I also worked on a device that will get to the moon's surface in a future Artemis mission and dealt with all the lander companies) is somewhere in the two million USD range.

And asteroid? And mining equipment? Well, it will be a lot more than that. 10x? 100x? No clue.

Let's assume the cost is the same. Lets' further assume we need, say, 50,000 kg in equipment, supplies and fuel/energy to get there, mine and bring it back.

At $2MM per kg this would mean a one-way trip cost of $100 billion dollars. Round trip? Let's call it $200 billion. My guess is that might bring back somewhere between 500 and 1,000 kg of whatever was mined.

This is all hypothetical, of course. Just having fun.

Let's say we mine gold. Current value per kg is about $60K. So, a thousand kilograms of gold brought back from an asteroid would yield $60 million dollars. That would represent a loss of $199,940,000,000 dollars.

Diamonds? They are worth about 1,000x more than gold per weight. That still represents a loss of $140 billion.

The same is the story with fabrication in space. Getting tools, equipment, energy production means and raw materials there and back cost tons of cash (literally). If it can be done in low orbit it's much more manageable, still tons of cash though. Try to move farther away from earth and costs go exponential very quickly.

Asteroid mining is one of those neat concepts that people keep talking about over the years. Fun and interesting, of course. I just don't see it ever making financial sense.

Minion on mars to build stuff on mars is a different matter. Well, it will still cost tons of cash to get everything there, but at least you don't have to bring it back!
You gave me a serious case of deja vu when I read your post. But then I realized you posted the same thing 10 days ago and I must have just read it then and I had completely forgotten. That was a really weird experience.
Unless they're willing to listen and greatly respects you, you can truly explain and tell people what you're trying to imply.