skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While interesting, every time I take a look at the Swift forums I fear that Swift becomes even more bloated. The community seems to like adding every language feature and their grandmother. Introducing a different object model means either some breaking changes or temporarily yet another model/feature.

Swift went from a language that a beginner can understand and learn in a reasonable time to something where you feel you periodically need a CS degree to follow code. I'm waiting for online-guides which subset of Swift we should actually use.
Every WWDC I spent the next 2 month just to learn the new language features. Just to forget them until the next project.
... and most of all it's fun, dropping a gear before accelerating out of a roundabout gets you right in the pit of the stomach
That sounds like a great argument for easy profile switching, along with an option in your play history for "move this play history item to this other profile".
I think this problem doesn't really lie along the axis of centralization of power. Google is taking on policing power because the actual police are more or less absent on its platform (because of technical competency and complex jurisdictional issues). Is that an example centralization or decentralization? It's a little of both.

The real problem, IMO, is best described as "public power in private hands."
It simply is true. But under capitalism plans don't always work out. That's how it is supposed to work. Things are tried and some fail. That way is progress and productivity.

We have system autostabilisers that rebalance the ship when the private sector has a blow up.

Bankruptcy is the reset mechanism. It's a mechanism that actually works, unlike the debtors' prisons we had previously.
At least here in Germany 'breadbin' is quite wellknown. We call it 'Brotkasten', which means literally the same.
Here is what I got :)
https://imgur.com/a/WwAg901
The fact this tale ended up on HN is in no way surprising to me.
I solved this by having large hands. I usually also use function keys which seems to be difficult as well with such a layout. The arrow keys could also induce nightmares for me. Especially up/down being smaller than left/right.
I've been using https://get.localhost.direct/ which gives a similar service.
Unpopular opinion (I've been downvoted for this in the past): you don't have to put all your photos and videos on a computer server (either self hosted or from Google/Apple/Meta/Microsoft).

I leave new pictures on my iPhone without any iCloud backups, make a backup to my PC hard disk once a month, and make a backup to BD-R once a year (and then remove everything older than a year from my phone). I don't feel I'm missing out an anything by not putting everything on some server. Even in the past when I did use automatic cloud backups, I don't recall ever really needing to have access to some years old picture immediately.

I'm not a digi-luditte, I do occasionally send irrelevant pics to family and friends in Whatsapp (which I do assume can be eavesdropped at any moment, so I don't send truly private stuff). But I don't think having every personal photo and video I ever took accessible within a second improves my life in a significant way.
Static analysis using static typing gives you almost nothing at all in practice.

It searches for a very narrow and rare set of bugs, which hardly ever happen.

Typing really exists to help a compiler, it's not a code correctness tool in the way you envision.
In the same world most offshoring devs when they come on site, they bring a Dell or Lenovo i5 with 8GB, everything else is done in cloud instances.
Check out https://github.com/THUDM/CogVideo - progress is being made on coherent video generation.

Characters and dialogue are effectively solved, just look at GPT-3.

The entity behind StableDiffusion is also supporting generative music art, so let's see what is coming out of that: https://www.harmonai.org/

We are currently far away from generating a production quality movie with AI, but I don't think it's going to be nearly as long as a lifetime. In my opinion, we'll have high quality AI shorts within the decade.
> Without (more) PoC living in this area, nothing improves.

That's an interesting take. Why?
Multi layer perovskites could make them worth carrying on ships that have to stop (canals and similar).

If your batteries have to do 2400 out of 2500km and then 2100km out of 2500km in two stretches that's a 10% reduction in battery cost (and a cargo increase).

Even at 6% (high but achievable efficiency in the mid term) it's still worth slapping them on if it doesn't interfere with operation too much as they weigh comparatively nothing.
You could make the case that we're already at that point. The system is being propped up by our ability to buy ever more stuff. Ever more people are employed in the service economy. Ie relatively low skilled but not easily automated work.

For me this is the main point of basic income. If you get to the point where people can't consume enough stuff to keep everyone employed, you end up with a situation with the class that own the means of production not having anyone to sell to, because 'the workers' don't have any income.
>The Internet Chess Server. Always near to bursting with activity, you're guaranteed to find a chess mate of your skill level. Brush the cobwebs off your game or challenge a grandmaster. I personally keep a physical chess board handy so I can better visualize the game (to access, telnet to ics.onenet.net 5000).

ICS was fantastic back in the day (shout out to FICS that has been great since 1998 and still going). I'll never forget being logged into ICS on 9/11 while watching the towers get hit and chatting on there with different people around the country and the world stunned at what was going on.
This is delirious thinking.

I work for another FAANG, and I would never be able to take any action on any part of a customer's account.

I guarantee you Tommy that works in the team that handles tags on marketplace listings cannot do anything about any other system in Facebook.
Oh, having a question closed as a duplicate is often justified, at least in my case. Last time it happened to me, it was because I used "style sheet" as a search word instead of "CSS".

If you can't be bothered searching, just post and then follow the link given in the duplicate closure message. (I'm joking, yes? I'm not really advising people to do that.)
Hey thanks for this feedback. I'm a co-founder at Nowala. While I can say that we're not a scam at all, why should you trust that haha

We've noted the terms of service point. If you could highlight other issues that lead you to mistrust the service, that would be super helpful!
> Spotify's recommendation system is much better than youtube's (at least for me). I frequently "joke" that it is one of the few applications of ML that actively make my life as a consumer better.

I've had the opposite experience with Spotify - I'd say my discovery of new music has withered to almost nil since switching when Google Music shifted to YouTube.

The algorithm just churns stuff I've already listened to, or suggests artists with (consistently) two songs that feel like Spotify's own fake artists - session musicians generated to capture royalties in-house.
Most programs don't deal with birth dates and people. It's like stating that most "computers" are neither on a desktop nor in a pocket. Technically correct, as counter-intuitive as it is.
Google is censoring NATO-critical voices?
searching for
https://youtube.com/results?search_query=pepe+escobar+ukraine

this video (100k views) doesn't show up, but reuploads do
https://youtu.be/5mlFxcVItnQ

i've noticed this with lots of content recently
#influencer pushed it over the edge for me.
the enraged responses are pretty funny given that this is literally just what the BEAM vm is conceptually.

Trying to bolt a static type system on a dynamic object oriented language literally violates any benefit you get from using a dynamic language in the first place. (that is to say, change things as they run).

I have no idea why people try to enforce the programming paradigm of Java on Python. if you want a huge, static program... write it in a static language, don't write it in Python.
It's nonsense. First off there is no such thing as "large scale programing". Maybe they mean big data? SQL is just a description of what data you want, it has nothing to do with how that query is implemented or optimized. Unless you think Spark or Bigquery aren't appropriate for large data, in which case I'd like to see how removing SQL helps.
this needs some sort of stealth plug-in called Creepee
But who wants to do that other than the government? And it was removed directly because of government sanctions. I understand that the first ammendment is poorly understood with regard to private companies and hosting content online, but in this case the first ammendment is applicable.
Doesn’t it come down to „be a critical thinker instead of a mindless consumer“? From that follows that you don’t just scroll through the homepage but should use the search function, in an informed way.

Which in turn already fails at the majority of people being too lazy to type, and not knowing how to search for things they want. They quickly give up, and just take the easy route of consuming what’s served to them.

It’s the modern equivalent of falling on the sofa, switching on the TV, and just watching whatever’s on until they fall asleep.

Getting a majority of people to care about their media consumption is probably a hopeless cause.
I’m always careful not to mention the last company I worked for, in my posting (it’s one that I’m proud to have worked for). It’s not a secret, but I don’t want to give them any cause for concern.

It’s long past the time where I would be in any legal jeopardy for doing so, but I do it from respect.

That company had pretty strict HR policies, and one of them, was that a manager could never mention any disciplinary outcomes to employees. That was a privilege reserved only to HR. A manager could only mention that a matter may be referred to HR.
Wow, thank you :) Exactly what I was looking for!! :)

Though the SSL cert for their site appears to have just expired :/ Hopefully this is only temporary
A moderator is a material that slows neutrons down. Slow neutrons are more likely to initiate fission in a Uranium (or other fissile) nucleus that they hit, so a moderator increases the reactivity of the reactor.
the founder is from San Francisco, our codebase was in Ruby / React
I get "How much suing is" doesn't imply winning the case, it is just a price of getting case to court.
Do a dynamic pivot (I'll wait.)

But in all seriousness, DataFrame centric operations are a superset of SQL (you can always do a df.sql("...") if you want to ) and have a lot more efficient implementation of both OLTP/ORM requirements and OLAP/DS/BI requirements.

They also encourage composability, modularization, reuse, unit and data testing ...

So it's ironic I feel like SQL's replacement is another declarative language - its original inspiration - plain English.

Just a natural language transpiler (like Palantir's Ontology plus Looker's Malloy (reverse disclaimer: I do not work for or enjoy either of these products but these underlying concepts are correct)) with some fancy domain heuristics and light AI (I suspect a Pareto like model that supports 80% of use cases only needs a semantic graph with a few thousand nodes and vertices)
I really disagree.

It's really obviously symbiotic if you look at any level of detail.

Old leftists see it as corporations taking over the state. Conservatives see it as the state taking over corporations. Meanwhile, it's extremely obvious that both are complicit and that they grow to rely on each other in quickly inextricable ways.

This article is about Google doing police work: surveillance, analysis, investigation. It is only one example, a detail within a larger framework. Now, privacy focused competition represents an interference with critical police work.

Meanwhile, Google is highly involved in drafting legislative detail about how copyright is implemented. How liability for platform usage is implemented. Etc.

The state is not irrelevant at all. Politics might be a reality TV show, but that's always been the case.
"the boss is defensive about the first part applying to"..

It doesn't matter what the boss thinks, it matters what the contract says.

I don't know what "refusing to make exceptions" means - what power do they have to make exceptions? Even if they agreed you could work on something, unless they changed the contract they can freely break that agreement.
Risking everything every time is most certainly not the way to maximize aggregate happiness.
Assemblyscript Removes WASI Support
IANAL but I'm fairly confident that would only apply if you are employed as someone who develops recipes. If you are a software developer no court will decide your employer owns the recipe you invented.
> They do this to comply with European GDPR regulations

In this case, they actually satisfy the two requirements:

1. "ongoing legitimate interest". They are still in a dispute with the customer. Deactivating an account does not require deleting data, so long as the case it not closed. There is no "30 day" limit in this case, and it seems like an arbitrary time period imposed by someone who hasn't thought of the consequences.

2. "users permission". In this case they do have the user permission to keep the content, because the user wants to keep access to the account.

> they don't have the capability to implement any other option.

As mentioned above, you can deactivate an account without also deleting it. It may of course be easier for Google to just delete it instead of introducing a new state, but I would argue that a company such as Google does have the capability to implement this option. I would go so far as to say this is a failure of Google to not have such a process in place.
I have the same problem with Spotify, just the same stuff over and over and over. YouTube Music has a much more diverse recommendation approach than Spotify does in my experience.
I incorporated in Delaware, had no issues. Likewise simple enough to close down the company when that sad day came.

I know that some Western states have better privacy laws, but those are designed for setting up tax shelters, not corporations you hope to scale.
Unused memory is wasted memory.
Good job to the APIfy team for this, this look very interesting!
Which is why Apple replaced that visual-display-only escape key with an actual key and a slightly smaller touch bar pretty quickly, yeah. Because having zero feedback on key presses is terrible. This one will be terrible too.
Ignore advice on the internet and get a lawyer instead.

I encountered this clause at a previous job and i did not sign anything until we agreed on an additional document stating that that clause does not apply. I got the advice of a lawyer and vetted the additional document before signing. This clause was not even legal in my country

Contract law should be taken seriously. Get a lawyer and see if you can push back. If you're not in the US and they really want you it might work.

Also, f** companies that have such clauses.
In Sweden we are super reliant on digital payments and a lot of stores don't even accept cash any more. Most people don't carry cash only digital payments. This simplifies for the stores/restaurants and maybe decreases the risk of handling larger amounts of cash.
I love the simplicity of digital payments and not having to bother with change and such. We even have an app called Swish (set up by Swedish banks) that does free money transfer between people and can also do payments to stores.

Every once in a while some pensioner organisation or so starts a debate about them not understanding how to pay their bills via an app and that they can't shop at some stores/restaurants only taking payments via an app (Swish). Some seniors might not have a smartphone or are unable to use it.

But the real and much bigger issue is what happens in case of a crisis. Like a huge power outage or the rolling blackouts that might come this winter depending on how the power situation develops in Europe. Or in case of natural disaster or war. We have historically had a very stable power grid and society so most people don't even think about what they would do if their digital payment methods just stopped working. I don't think it benefits our society that we are unable to make payments without technology.
> common MSR talking point

Well, a lot of 'common MSR talking points' are overblown, firmly detached from reality. Or at least conveniently ignoring all the significant challenges remaining in industrializing MSR technology. MSR fanboys are the most tedious of the pro-nuclear side of the energy debate, perhaps beaten only by the "this entirely unproven aneutronic fusion concept will imminently solve all our energy woes" crowd. :)
is this a contract with US or company outside of EU? the contract should mention the court jurisdiction in case of a legal dispute, my contracts in past always mentioned it
To me (also non-native speaker) it seems synonymous with "right", "yes" or "mm hmm" so I don't see the issue either. Mind you, in Dutch we'd also say "Klopt", which is a colloquialism that also translates to "that is correct".
No, thats a GAS bus fire!
How a 20-year-old student made $110mn riding the meme stock wave
>> Voting with dollars works with corps

It does not. This is a silly myth.

It works in the sense that if people don't buy, companies change. There has almost never been a "consumer action" that organised to influence companies in any significant way. It just doesn't work IRL.
great stuff. then there’s about many more US laws outside of CFAA.
Archive link: https://archive.is/hrhbn
"Sure" in that context is short for "For sure", which is short for "I agree with you wholeheartedly"
We are currently looking for a passionate, creative and skilled UI/UX Designer (m/f/d) to join our UI/UX Design Team. The team is responsible for the UI Design of our ABOUT YOU eCommerce Platform (app, mobile, tablet, desktop) as well as our ABOUT YOU SCAYLE products.

Our products focus heavily on personalization and fashion inspiration, as well as offering an intuitive and easy-to-use user experience. You want to have an impact on one of the fastest-growing eCommerce platforms in Europe with your creative ideas? Then we’d love to receive your application including your portfolio or website!

What you will do
- Creating UI interfaces, including elements and layouts, style guides, icons, and much more
- Creating innovative UX concepts for mobile, tablet & desktop in close collaboration with stakeholders and frontend developers
- Working with Figma, Zeplin, and After Effects
- Working according to the “mobile first approach” in an agile and dynamic work environment while orienting yourself on the customer journey
- Working in a team with strong strategists and creative professionals
- Building effective MVPs, acting as a key driver to evaluate their potential, and participating in the optimization process until they become best-in-class solutions

Who you are
- You possess a university degree in Communication or UX Design or mastered a practical apprenticeship within a related field
- You have 2-3 years of practical experience in UI Design
- You have general knowledge in Figma
- You have a very good understanding of complex side architectures, user flows, and shop structures
You love new challenges and innovations
- You are a fast learner and work in detail and independently
- You have an affinity for eCommerce and software

Nice to have
- Ideally, you can master rapid prototype development in Protopie or InVison
- Experience in Photoshop and Illustrator
- You have practical experience from digital agencies or high-performance internet companies (preferably in eCommerce)
> My unsubstantiated guess is that this is one of the most comprehensively-typed Python codebases out there for its size.

Not important, but FAANG companies have several orders of magnitude more strictly-typed Python than this.
All examples of how ancient script can be understood nowadays are due to some connection to modern living languages or side-by-side translations which are connected to some currently used language somehow. Kinda defeats it's own argument. No script survives complete collapse of the culture around it.
Spotify's algorithm works really well until you let someone else use the account. I wish there was a "child mode", "party mode" or whatever to disable updating recommendations.
To be honest.. if I needed to consult a lawyer for a new job I would just find another job.
> you periodically need a CS degree to follow code.

I have a CS degree, and the issue is not so much being able to follow the code, but wanting to.

Roughly 99% of the issues the Swift designers appear to care incredibly deeply about are things that have never, in my now almost 40 years of programming, popped up on my radar as something I would be even marginally concerned about.

And that's not because I am generally unconcerned, quite the opposite. Heck, I've been working on my own language for over a decade despite not really being all that much into languages, simply because I strongly believe that things need fixing, badly.

I think it's this (type of) disconnect that is at the heart of the trouble with Apple software development these days.
Hosting them alone is not evil, unless made available to the whole world. What about not reinstating the account?
It’s an enormous liability concern for them.

Even if some activist executive would allow it, Microsoft’s lawyers would absolutely not.

And the shareholders also wouldn’t.

Don’t forget that the purpose of a business is to create shareholder value (as defined by the shareholders themselves), and I highly doubt that the majority of Microsoft’s shareholders would see any value in this. Just liability.

Conclusion - not worth it.

> Are they gonna terminate Prof Green's account too?

Probably not.

> Are they gonna hunt down every copy of the source code on Github?

Probably.
A reminder that this story plays out dozens of times every day in the Mediterranean right now.

42,549 irregular border crossings were reported in July 2022 on the Central Mediterranean route [1]. The number of those who drowned will never be known.

Many of these Africans who dare to cross the sea have already travelled for weeks or months and survived the Sahara. They are not celebrated as risktakers, though. Unlike this article, nobody sings odes to the boldness, inventiveness, motivation, honor and leadership qualities of the African migrant. Maybe they should.

[1] https://frontex.europa.eu/media-centre/news/news-release/eu-...
The text of the contract isn't limited by 'intent'. Relying on what they might have intended, but not written, is legally throwing yourself at their mercy.

That is assuming the clause is enforceable in Cyprus, and isn't just legal intimidation.
Stealth is already included by default, but I love the name :D
In that dreaded plant in Germany it’s a cool 60% currently:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/efahrer.chip.de/news/ueber-60-p...