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Ask HN: What is the future of Swift on the server-side?
I am in a dilemma on which language to choose on the backend for my project. I am looking for a performant, statically-typed, systems programming language. I know C++. But C++ has become somewhat an over-engineered language that is mostly in a to-be-not-to-be state of feature development. So I looked at Rust and it already seems going in the direction of C++. So I looked at Swift, and I like what I see, but I am not sure if the language has any serious users on the server-side. IBM was one who was part of the group working on server-side features of Swift, but left the group sometime back.

So I was wondering if anyone here is using Swift and or Vapor for backend development?

What are the other alternatives, Nim?
> It's little things like errors automatically prompting you to open a graphical debugger or processes being grouped by application.

SerenityOS is also doing a lot to perfect their UX. It might become at least as popular as Haiku down the line.
That's cool! Like playing classic Doom inside Doom 3. Is there a list of games that let you play older versions from within?
Hmm, I thought the GPU driver was already pretty good?
Different author, but sounds somewhat similar to 'The Light of Other Days' by Arthur C Clarke and Stephen Baxter.

Although iirc correctly it starts with being able to see other locations in space but at the same time, and the historical viewing is a second development.

Fantastic book, even if it's not the same one you were thinking of.
Sonic pi is live programable music. Similar to this but not visual
for now it's "glued with tape", but I'm going to try to make it presentable to post something on Github
That's exactly what happens in the video linked in the article in that paragraph.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q9tXR7jmL8
Not sure what side of the debate you're taking here, but I think you've outlined the issue perfectly.

Engineers: "We couldn't have a list of commands, that's not how humans work, you're supposed to treat Alexa like a human, and the possibilities are endless"

Users: "Ok, then. Alexa, take out the trash."

Alexa: "Sorry, I can't do that."

(Ok, so obviously the possibilities aren't endless, right?)

I can somewhat understand general knowledge queries. For those, you can totally make the case that there's just too many things you can ask about to enumerate them all.

But imperative commands, like sending text messages, setting timers, or home automation? There's a finite list of those, since at the end of the day they actually have to be authored by some human who's writing a (say) Alexa skill. The number of utterances that may map to those skills are unbounded, but the number of skills aren't. So yes, at the end of the day, for "command" like things, they really should be able to give a list of them.
Strangely, I am not hearing many stories from retail of big losses. There were tons of people coming out of the woodwork on Reddit and Twitter after the LUNA collapse. Not sure what that’s all about.
Handling the privacy of other people might be oddly easy. If you can detect the voice accurately enough the AI might be able to _drop_ the other participants.
I've recently started a trial of NixOS on a Framework laptop.

It's definitely not ready for a normal person, that's true. I'm working in text files to configure things, and had to debug the GUI not starting after my initial install.

That said, I was pleasantly surprised how much the basic Gnome desktop just got right after initial setup. My Bluetooth earbuds were plug-and-play, and watching Netflix in Firefox just required clicking the "Enable DRM" popup that appeared on the Netflix failure page.

I've run into more issues as I've progressed (e.g., USB 4 channel audio interface is recognised as a microphone but doesn't just show up by name in Audacity), and yeah - overall it's not ready for a non-programmer.

Nonetheless, I've been pleasantly surprised at how much better it works than it did the last time I tried a Linux desktop, in my mid-twenties. Things are definitely better.

...granted, I intentionally chose a machine that was designed with all Linux-supported hardware. I'm sure that helps a lot.
Plenty of movie-worthy stories in crypto to tell, I'd love a TV show on it. The last few years in particular have been a complete circus.
I bought a new subaru in wyoming with a personal check and my address registered to general delivery with a similar experience. I was so surprised they didn’t make me get a cashiers check or verify the check.

I did later get screwed by the dealership when I was tired of doing my own maintenance after having replaced the timing belt on my truck and let the wife take it in for service and they literally replaced every fluid in the vehicle including brake fluid on a 2 year old vehicle, a $900 service.
As you'd be recording all of your conversations, this is illegal under some legislations, unless all your conversation partners agree with being recorded/their convos being stored.
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> Not all countries have laws that make equity vesting possible.

However, if tokens are securities, that doesn't mean you can legally sell/give them tokens either.
> it's always people wanting cushy pay and social status - not in it because engineering is fun

I keep hearing this “social status” thing about working in tech. Outside of the tech bubble - no one cares that you work for BigTech. It’s just another job at a company people have heard of.

Yes I work at a “FAANG” remotely. It’s just another one of the eight jobs I’ve had over 25+ years.

> My boss has told me that he specifically aims to find the nerds and put them on his team - I imagine he's not the only one that does that.

Yes because he can under pay them.
This is two people at one company it doesn't refute a larger trend.
My point is that most people don't care that Joanne K. Rowling is supposedly transphobic, and instead just like the Harry Potter books. So those instances would certainly not even think about banning Joanne K. Rowling or other instances that give her an account...
Oh fun! I bought a copy of this book years ago, it was cathartic after "serving" under a boss who was particularly conflicted with the gift of being a bullshitter.

I eventually used the book as a shim - a sort of layer of protection for my desk from the clamp of a microphone boom that I had to clamp down on the desk very tightly. It would threaten to fall off constantly, and On Bullshit was the perfect protection - small and thin but, most importantly, also hard-covered. It acted as a shim between the clamp and the desk I was protecting.

Eventually I got a better mic arm (low profile one from Elagato). Since then the book was somewhere around my messy office at all times, lost in the shuffle.

My 5 year old son just found it the other week and asked me to read it to him. Luckily he can't yet read, so the big glaring letters ON BULLSHIT on the cover weren't interpreted.

I was failing to come up with good excuse as to why I couldn't read this to him, even starting to sweat a little. He's a persistent one, so I had to word my response carefully, else risk a drawn out argument. Yes, an argument with a 5 year old.

Finally I blurted out "it doesn't have any pictures!" and that...worked?! "Oh, it's an adult book?" ... "uhhh yes that's it, an adult book!"

Crisis averted with a little bullshit.
> Ancient Egypt and the Roman empire weren't colonial powers by this definition.

The Gauls, Celts, and many other colonized peoples may beg to differ.
Again I would ask that you consider yourself uninformed and abstain from voting if you don't have the mental fortitude to follow the goings on of Planet Earth.
All cats are beautiful.
Transforming Data with Malli and Meander
I think a lot of people are missing that it was not 16 liquid USD that was lost here. It was 16B of various assets on paper. That's different from a pretty liquid stock traded on the NYSE.

The 16B could've never been liquidated as 16B in cash because the liquidity for many of these assets is too low. Selling even just a small fraction would have crashed the market for many of these assets. It's impossible to know what the liquid worth of these assets was, but it was probably 5-10x less than what's on paper.
Does it? If you aren't getting a bunch of scooters at once, the cost of the driver and the van adds up. And these companies have a bunch of expensive software engineers that need to be paid too.

The company my dad worked for once ran a program enabling temporary bike access during the London Olympics. They underestimated the cost of getting the bikes to the places they needed to be to maximize utilization and ended up losing a bunch on the contract.
If you're getting Access Denied, here's an archived copy:

https://web.archive.org/web/20221115123055/https://www.kbb.c...
Maybe that was his point.
Well this is my first time seeing that video, and I'm delighted!

I wonder if there's anywhere in the contiguous U.S. where such fireworks are still legal. I hope so.
> I can only tell when other people are wrong, not actually be right myself

...well, is anyone today is wrong about their shipping container projections? :-)
Anyone reminded of XKCD's "Up goer five" strip (https://xkcd.com/1133/), or is it just me?
Good progress is being made with a GPU driver, but currently as released rendering is all being done in software.
Does the free self-hosted plan allow you to publish an app and non logged in users can see it? Openblocks does that.
Have you checked out opencollective.com? Since you’re in Belgium your project is likely eligible for Open Source Collective Europe. They offer users a lot of different payment methods including card and even crypto since recently if you want to do that. They do have options to ask for a shipping address.
It's probably just consequence of some person trying really hard to promote the language these days, rather than a divine intervention.
An off the shelf solution for recording your whole life:

I have a Sony recorder, ICD-UX570, and it has a setting where it turns on or off based on sound, and also adjusts the gain to best record. It takes a micro-SD card and has pretty solid battery.

I think you could put it in a breast pocket and run it for several days on a single charge. Because it would just record when you are talking or making noises you could likely run it for a year on a big SD card recording in mp3.

Change to a wifi SD card and suck the files off and process them and you might have something kind of cool.
I'm not into Android at all (iPhone user), but I had no problems installing LineageOS on a Pocophone F1 I bought specifically as a second travel phone for its LineageOS compatibility, beyond Xiaomi's obnoxious process for unlocking the bootloader.

The limited hardware support, specially for reasonably priced models with 5G, is a serious concern, and the limitations with mobile banks coopted by Google into refusing to work on alternative ROMs a big issue as well.
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As far as i understand it's about `rem`, not `em` (which is relative to it's parent not the 62.5-normalized root element). And as long as you don't go all-in with absolute units (and loose all control over custom scaling on your site/app), you still need `rem`.
Assuming it works on existing fiber, just more bandwidth without new install costs.
the device from the picture has a 5000 mAh battery (around 10hrs), and and bought a smaller one (1-2 hrs)
My newer XPS laptop doesn't even have an S3 sleep state. At least it can hibernate under OpenBSD, I guess.
Now is probably a terrible time to be looking for a job in tech.
they're awesome they just do personal email though, no saas. i was using them for verification emails and they said its fine for testing but you need to find a volume sender.
Dropping after the fact still means it was recorded, this violating two party notice statutes.
Well not even Windows can manage to sleep a 'modern standby' laptop reliably these days.

I had to set hibernate on lid-close because Windows kept waking it up all the time even while closed.
It's based in the Netherlands. Not sure how difficult it is for Fairphone to work in the US, my understanding is that the US carriers are trickier than others.
-- a nebulous position - depending on the CEO - usually they are excellent in things the CEO is not - our CEO is really good at thinking about process and productivity - but really bad at thinking about finance and legal - so our COO does that stuff for her --
There’s no need to be a dick about it.

I only vote municipal, those elections actually have a real impact on my life and I have firsthand knowledge of the issues and the people.
Perhaps the trick is to donate to politicians who oversee these agencies...
That's not true. Corrupt government creates corruption.
The US is the only country in the world where you have such a credit history system built with credit cards.

Some countries such as the UK have a credit system but CCs are not involved.
> Why is it so hard for me to find a single, precise location on my phone with an enumerated list of every command Siri or Google can work with?

Because engineers (and managers) contrive problems like this to the point they are useless solutions.
Well, Isaac Netwon supported the slave trade by holding the equivalent of millions of pounds in shares in the South Sea Company: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Sea_Company

Liebniz wasn't much better: "Leibniz’s early views were no more savoury; ‘barbarians,’ whom he considered ‘beasts’ (see Perkins, 111), could be destroyed in order to civilize them." https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-leibniz/

Obviously not all mathematicians espoused problematic views, but it's worth demonstrating sensitivity to this aspect if it broadens the appeal of the subject.
I can confirm that I now see your images.
This is another nonsensical science headline. Nothing is moving backward in time here. Reverting to a previous state may be interesting, but let's not call it time reversal please.
I think a classic super-star COO example would be Sheryl Sandberg, who was COO of Facebook/Meta.
She was practically running the company. Zuckerberg mainly focused on strategy, vision while she made Facebook a well oiled profit machine.
Rimac Nevera Hits 412kph to Become World’s Fastest Production Electric Car
> “We way overdid Covid stimulus…”

Not sure what you’re referring to specifically, but the PPP was a good program. Most of the money went directly to non-owners/workers. And the amount which owners did receive helped keep those businesses afloat, again benefiting employees with a place of work.
I have the system 76 AMD model for work called Pangolin (not available now) it really quite fast and doesn’t get too hot. Battery life is great. I’ve stressed tested doing genetics work which involved maxing out 16 cores across a couple days.

Those new AMDs are great. I went with the system76 because it comes with and they support Linux. It sleeps and wakes ok too
My guess would be that the OEMs don't mainline their patches. At least from what I understood looking at PostmarketOS, they spend a lot of energy mainlining those devices they support.

I guess it's different for laptops, somehow.
The problem is all those gadgets have their own APIs and quirks. For example, my WiFi scale often decides to silently not sync to my phone. Or decides to update my partner's weight instead of mine. OP is building on arguably the most natural API - speech, which is what all those smart assistants have been promising us for a decade. I think there is a lot of convenience as well as unexplored ground to be found in such a system.
I'm going to go against the grain here but probably not. I walked 500+ km (300 miles) on the Camino Del Norte in a pair of 20£ under armour running shoes I bought 3 years ago. I only had one blister that went away when I put a blister plaster on it.
But is it easier to outspend the private contractors(staffed full of former generals) that end up rewarded contracts based on their ability to network with government officials?

The pentagon budget is a chronic scandal and a pretty good example of exactly how the private-public partnerships is creating a system where everyone benefits from the government being seen as inefficient.
This literally is the history of race on census forms.

A census taker would decide what race you are, from categories thought up by other people.

https://www.census.gov/data-tools/demo/race/MREAD_1790_2010....

> While people nowadays are enumerated by race based on self-identification, until 1950 their race on the census was mainly determined by their census enumerator.[170] During this time multiracial people who were White and of another race were usually marked down as belonging to the other race due to the One drop rule.[170] The instructions provided to enumerators endorsed this practice.
Google Pays Record $391M Fine for Tracking User Location
22 + 12 + 3 + 5 + 10 + 7 Those are my percentages of 'tax/insurance'. Which contains must carry insurance and called by the supreme court as a tax as argued by the DoJ. Three of them contain 'hidden' taxes or as your boss's accountant puts it, 'your total compensation'. That is about ~60% of my incoming going towards 'taxes'. That is just for me where I live and my income level. I also am leaving out some others. In some states that number is more along the lines of 70-75% of your total income. We also play games with the Laffer curve so it is harder for anyone to really know what is going on.

My argument is we itemized the bill. All of the individual items look lower. Because we broke them out. The whole number is about the same. I would argue that some are too low for our spend rate but that is a different argument.
This seems to be smelting rather than meteoric, but it won't let me read the full article.
I am using it with friends and family, and tell them beforehand about the experiment
Is this an example of the stereotypical American "academic" leftist idiotic fringe that takes many votes to the Tea Party?
No, I'm talking specifically about case of reducing two letters to one.
No, of course. It'd be interesting to see how much you can claw back with a practical implementation though.

Off the top of my head, it's not practical to fix RISCV's multi-precision arithmetic issues with instruction fusion. That's not a dominant use-case, especially if post-quantum crypto takes off, but it's definitely a place where RISCV underperforms ARM and x86 by a large factor instruction-for-instruction.

Also there are places where ARM's instructions improve code density, like LDMIA, STMDB etc. These of course can't be fixed by fusion.

I'm sure there are other areas.
All the important stuff makes its way to HN anyway.
I'm not sure if that's what Google is doing. More than half of my queries result in a "Let me google that for you" response where it pulls up a search page.
Yes, they probably want that. And they also want pie in the sky.

The Model 3 was launched in July 2017, about 5.5 years ago. Unveiling in April 2016, more than 6.5 years ago. During the unveiling, if I'm not wrong, they announced the $35k Model 3. In 2019 they actually released the $35k Model 3, as more of a publicity stunt, since they pulled it after only 2 months.

Back then €1 was about $1.2, so that price would have been about €24k.

Instead, in the real world of today, where €1 is less than $1, the cheapest Model 3 you can buy in Europe is about €54k.

So at the new exchange rate, it's more than twice as expensive, and even with the old exchange rate, it would have still been $45k (about 30% more expensive).

So the "Model 2" will actually be around the price that was promised for Model 3.

More than that, Tesla is notoriously unreliable regarding forecasts. At this point I don't think the Model 3 will ever be back to $35k/€35k.

And this new "Model 2" will probably be launched 10 years from now and it will cost what the Model 3 was supposed to cost, back in 2017.

I don't know about you, but I don't make my plans around stuff that takes 15 years to be ready (5.5 years until now + the likely 10 more years it takes them to launch it).
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The far right is defined by political scientists like Cas Mudde (who focuses on extremism) as being anti-system.

The extreme-right rejects democracy, while the radical right accepts it, but rejects elements of liberal democracy such as minority rights or rule of law.

Obviously the Spectator is nowhere near far right and painstakingly affirms democratic principles. They’re mainstream right if anything.

Frankly I find opinions like yours extremist in themselves - disavowing press publications because of fuzzy accusations substantiated by twitter.
Smart move!
I started programming as a hobby in 1986 in 6th grade. By the time I graduated college in 1996, I had been a hobbyist programmer in 4 different assembly languages. I haven’t written a line of code “for fun” since then. The last thing I want to do is open an IDE after work after doing for my job.

I was a part time fitness instructor from around the time I graduated until I was 35, dabbled in real estate for a few years, got (re)married at 35 and raised two (step)children and now my wife and I just started traveling and doing the “digital nomad” thing - staying in hotels and flying mostly to different cities in the US with a few stops in Canada and Mexico.

There are a million of things I would rather do with my free time.
C, although statically typed, is considered weakly typed as well.
If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

https://coinpedia.org/crypto-live-news/ftx-ceo-in-connection...
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/sec-chairman-gary-gensle...
https://twitter.com/bof_tob/status/1592247076100112385/photo...
https://twitter.com/jchervinsky/status/1592173682687938560
https://twitter.com/SenLummis/status/1592212987259281408

This is speculation, but this is starting to fit the classic playbook of:
1) Create / seize a crisis
2) Have new regulation already ready to "address" crisis (using voter outrage to pass under rushed conditions)
3) Incrementally increase regulatory control (regulatory capture)
4) profit / increase power concentration

In this case, it's clear they are trying to establish CFTC control of eth & btc.
The reverse is a "Quantum" tree (DAG): 4->1,4->8
So a dictator jailing a dissident because what he said in social media is still considered a Free speech act?
I find numbers indicating 60% over a full year, but there have been stretches in winter where 100% was covered by renewable energy (wind power). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Hierro#Energy (German wikipedia has newer numbers). A good step in the right direction nevertheless compared to "previously spent on about 40,000 barrels of crude oil imported annually"
For many disabled patients, the doctor is often not in
Thanks for your feedback mtmail

Just to brainstorm:

Would they buy advertising results via vendors, e.g. https://developers.google.com/third-party-ads/googleads-vend...?

Or/And approach popular browser extensions; popular plugins with an offer to buy data, via GA or other tools?

Regarding ISP's, currently with SSL, i don't see how they do it unless the ISP's are using a man-in-the-middle HTTPS proxy against websites with non-pinned SSL certificates - but that is ilegal, correct? So, i'm still puzzled
We play this with our kids on car rides with some regularity. We usually limit scope to some book series- LOTR, Harry Potter, Star Wars, etc. Kids get really annoyed when I pick something super obscure like “a hair on Gandalf’s beard”. So I do. But they know it’s my strategy so can often guess anyway. If you know the owner skews towards obscure you can weight the binary search towards obscure.