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I have to confess, I was always envy of Python. Look at those PEPs! Yes it may be a little too formal, but there are lots of PEPs, many discussions, and progress. Well the word progress might not be entirely correct, but lots of activities. Look at Guido! He was always on the front battling, arguing or trying to steer the ship. Look at Python and Data Science, it went from good programming language to learn to must have for Data Scientist and Machine Learning. PyPy!

I have to confess, I was very envy of Python. I wish Ruby had something similar to PEPs, many more suggestions, Matz making more decisions, Ruby entering more Domains. Ruby could have grown itself 5x and its usage will still possibly be counted as a niche language. MJIT!

That was until past few months.

It wasn't until Guido Steps down from being BDFL for Python, before the simplest question pops, What happens to Ruby if Matz suddenly step down because of a similar "lively" discussions on features? And now looking at this "governance model", the bureaucratic nature of it. Makes me appreciate a lot more of how Ruby is being handled.

This isn't to say the Python model is wrong, far form it. Java have a similar model and it is brilliant.

During one of the recent talks Matz said he is already starting to work on Ruby 4.0, which is not about features or speed, but testing a model of future Ruby without Matz when he retire. He is enjoying life, and he is still having fun, but it will come a day when he retires, so he is preparing for it. Despite their syntax being somewhat similar, Ruby's values and culture that makes it a lot different to Python.
Does spotify need read/write on all my messages and posts ever made? I'm sure spotify isn't the only company granted this privilege of omnipotence. The cards are still falling, don't blame nyt for offering analysis when the news continues to break.
Yeah, we had them at my last office. They were made of a paper lid, fiber bag like filter for the grounds, and then a small ring of compostable plastic for rigidity. Worked great, but even more expensive than the normal K-cups. We ended up going back to making big pots of coffee because it's easy enough, cheap, and usually tastier.
it doesn't convert the video since most video on torrents is h.264 which is supported almost universally among browsers and devices.
It only converts the audio if it's not in AAC, which defaults to 128k.
It also doesn't download the whole video at once, you can seek as you like using your desired player.
Retail investors aren't the primary buyers of IPO stocks, are they? Isn't much of that inventory pre-sold on the road show?
There are GTK bindings for Python, JavaScript, Rust etc. It does not have to be C.

In fact it could be Qt too, that'll run perfectly fine too, if GTK isn't your thing.
Poor impulse control.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunedin_Multidisciplinary_He...
I've started learning Rust, and I have to say, it is the most satisfaction I ever felt from a programming language.
Hoping I could do something useful with it someday :D
Regulations, similar to how the EU is working toward banning plastic bags.

Everybody loves plastic bags but they are taking them away from us. K-Cups could (should?) have a similar fate.
Well, median income in China is less than $3,000 and in the US it's around $55k. So if their project cost more, that leaves a lot of slack time to engineer the train to go faster.

So potentially nearly 20x more man hours to get a train 6x faster.
>They turned making coffee from a process with easily compostable output into a massive trash production.

Capitalism is the ideal system for encouraging and refining this process, it's the "bottled water" strategy.
That's ok, components should be replaceable without having to reinvent the whole thing.

A fine, admirable and accurate (IMO) mindset. Things get weird when recruiters find out about these new tools and suddenly we're having that time honored discussion about how 'tech hiring is broken' because the people screening resumes don't realize OpsMop hasn't been out for 4 years and no one has 4 years experience with OpsMop.

Everyone scrambles to learn OpsMops-so they can get a job where OpsMop ends up being abandoned and the DevOps team goes back to ansible, other teams start adding it to their tool chains because someone got hired who fiddled with it once and becomes an OpsMop house, a few engineers get very good at it, realize they can probably write a better version, three years later someone's posted "Show HN: OpsBroom" to the front page.

Repeat.
but when you say "all the discarded k-cups could wrap around the earth 10 times" it sounds like that takes up a lot more space because people can't possibly visualize the size difference between a k-cup and the equator

it's like wrapping dental floss around a skyscraper the size of a slightly smaller earth
"If the problem is waste, that's something for the government to sort out."

Yes, let's put a $10 tax on each. But then you would probably complain about overregulation.
Intel’s Grand Vision (It Was Never About Moore’s Law)
Wages are hardly stagnating - by the numbers, they hit a 9-year high last month [1], and anecdotally, I'm finally hearing non-tech people saying "Dude, just find another job and get a big raise." The unemployment rate is lower than it's been since Nixon took office. [2][3]

Interest rates are a bit worrisome - historically the Fed has a tendency to overshoot and cause a recession, and do so 2-3 years after the rate hikes go through. If they didn't hike at all, we'd end up with the mother of all bubbles, though.

To learc83's point - the last time I can remember when people didn't think a recession was imminent was 1998-2000, when everybody was talking about the "New Economy" and how profits didn't matter anymore and insane stock valuations would be justified by productivity increases going forward. That was a helluva bubble. Then from 2001-2003 we actually were in recession, 2004-2007 smart money was predicting the coming CDO/housing/hedge fund crash, 2008-2009 the crash happened, 2010-2011 everyone was talking about a double-dip, 2011-2014 was the "jobless recovery" and talk about how the sectors that were destroyed in 2009 were permanently dead and tech was the one bright spot in the economy, 2014-2015 was the seed funding/delivery startup/sharing economy bubble, 2015-2016 was a tech slowdown as that bubble popped, and 2017-2018 was all about how Trump was about to ruin the economy (hasn't happened yet, who knows about later?). In the process, we've had bubbles in dot-coms, housing, derivatives, hedge funds, Web 2.0 startups, mobile apps, accelerators, delivery startups, West Coast real estate, and cryptocurrencies, all of which have amounted to a large transfer of wealth from those who followed the news to those who make the news.

[1] https://www.frbatlanta.org/chcs/wage-growth-tracker.aspx?pan...

[2] http://www.ncsl.org/research/labor-and-employment/national-e...

[3] https://www.thebalance.com/unemployment-rate-by-year-3305506
And as far as the law is concerned. The only “ethics” that the government should legislate are behaviors that infringe on someone else’s liberty/property/rights.

If someone feels that drug abuse is “unethical” shouldn’t matter as long as the drug addict is not breaking into your home or otherwise causing you harm.
At that point you're just treating Prometheus as an agent, like telegraf or collectd, running in the customers infrastructure to collect metrics from it and publish them to Cortex. That gets to my first point that Prometheus does a lot more than that, so maybe it would be beneficial to replace it or strip it down to ensure your customer never has to worry about storage performance, for example.

It's flexible for some architectures, but not others. If your potential customer runs their own servers or something like k8s that they can deploy Prometheus to, sure. But what if your potential customer runs on a PaaS like Heroku? Or a FaaS like lambda? Or what if what they primarily care about getting metrics from are jobs on some managed data processing service, like cloud dataflow? Etc.

In the end, to offer Prometheus/Cortex as a SaaS and be competitive with existing players like Datadog, SignalFX, etc I'd expect you'd have to run an API that your customers can code against to push data to you.
Haha! Telepolis is an extremely left-wing niche online site, with a certain leaning towards conspiracy theories.

It's the first time I've actually seen them included in any list of reputable media.
>So?

So we need to know this is happening so we can plan accordingly. I'm glad I saw this today, we will be better prepared.
I've seen compostable brands of cup.
> That's before you get to the problem that space is ridiculously big, and sweeping it across the entirety of the surface of that imaginary sphere would probably take millions of years.

The scale isn't lost on me. I'm aware of how much ground would need to be covered when you get out that far, and I figured that might be a pretty damning factor. That said, you wouldn't need to sweep it across the entire surface, only enough of the surface to rule out any interfering debris between us and the object. Wouldn't take much. We would need VERY accurate models of the orbit based on effects on other bodies, but it's hard to totally rule it out in my head.
The article mentions "sexual assault" as the motivation. In recent years, the rate has spiked in Sweden, from almost nothing to being really common.

The situation is pretty weird, because the cause is obvious but discussing it is considered unacceptable. Living in Sweden does not make a person follow the norms of traditional Swedish culture.
The best inventions are those where other people have to deal with the externalities? How do you propose the government handles this? Banning this kind of packaging?
How about we focus on the fact that today's kids have a shorter life expectancy than their parents due to shitty eating habits? I think that is an epidemic. Never heard anything about that from the Surgeon General though. Can't upset the Big Food apple cart too much.
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>the proof is that people are more than willing to pay the insane markup

One of the tent pole ideas of capitalism is that people are rational actors/consumers. They aren't.
I wouldn't, I shit on libertarians.
I’m pretty sure they did multiple times. Even recently in the past year. They just lie and there seems to be no consequences for it. At least after 2012 when they lied the government can go after them but they’re still looking into it.
No, but it's a spiritual concern that people like to signal their virtue over. Don't try to bring reason into this: it's about the soul!
Great thing about e-cigs is that you can wean yourself off the nicotine while still keeping the simulation of smoking. You can buy progressively lower nicotine concentrations until you feel comfortable with no nicotine. Once you don't have a physical addiction, giving up the e-cig entirely becomes easier. I used to smoke cigarettes and drink caffeine whenever I was staying up late to study. School got harder so more late nights meant I smoked more up to the point I was smoking during the day just to smoke. I switched to a vape with a high nicotine concentration instead. I found that I used it much more often, I could get a nicotine fix indoors but at least it wasn't a real cig. I started backing down the concentration and the use (mostly due to the public image of looking like a douchebag blowing huge clouds) and now I'm at the point where I only use the lowest concentration when I'm in the car alone. Nicotine addiction is barely on the radar for me anymore. Smoking really doesn't have that "volume knob" that vaping does. You can make that responsible choice of buying lower concentrations that isn't really possible when you buy a pack of cigs.
Just make sure your caffeine habit isn't masking unhealthy sleep habits.

Usually when I notice that my caffeine intake is going up, it's because I'm not sleeping enough for whatever reason, including staying up late to play video games.
Once you're dependent on their packaging process, why would they ever have to introduce whatever tracking or restriction they want "surreptitiously"? It'll be a part of their internal monitoring and diagnostics package.
Neptune was predicted from observed perturbations in the orbit of Neptune.

Observations of Neptune in the late 19th century led to a prediction that there was another planet, beyond Neptune, that was also affecting the orbit of Uranus. Pluto was discovered -- accidentally -- during the search for that predicted 9th planet.

It was later discovered that (a) Pluto isn't nearly massive enough to explain the observed perturbations, and (b) the observations were explained without the need for another planet when more accurate mass measurements were made.

(The hypothesized Planet Nine is too far away to have a significant effect on the orbits of Uranus and Neptune.)
As someone else referenced: https://www.gwern.net/Nicotine - there _is_ research that indicates that nicotine is not as addictive on its own as it is in cigarettes. And that's it's not, on its own, harmful.

And could you not say similar things about caffeine and caffeine dependence?
> Literally literally?

Yes; I've challenged this as hyperbole and people double down.

> Isn't your reply a "bad way to characterize the overall conversation" as well?

I don't think so. My reply characterizes the overall conversation as a difference of opinion about whether or not Go's design choices are matters of tradeoffs, and I believe this to be accurate. I chose my example because it was exceptionally stark, but the point is that if such stark comments are made so frequently, surely there is a long tail of less-stark comments. Anyway, I don't want to belabor the point because we have no data and all we can do is conjecture and stir up bad feelings and likely a flame war, so let's not do that.
I love my Nespresso. Even the hardware is thoughtful and durable - same machine for the last 4-5 years.

Something I was surprised to learn is that many high-end (read: Michelin recommended or higher) use Nespresso. The reason? Absolute consistency. When they need espresso for a dish, or dessert, or even to serve (espresso/cappuccino) they know that it's the same result, every time. [1]

1- https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2013/ap...
> US military spending...provides funding for basic research

Someone has to really have drank the kool-aid to even comprehend that statement, never mind believe it. What does military spending have to do with basic research?

If what you mean is that the US has a convoluted, wasteful system where workers work, get taxed, the money is sent to the Pentagon, and physicists at universities have to write out fantasy-laden grant proposals to DARPA about how their non-military basic research work has military purposes, then yes, "US military spending provides funding for basic research". This really got going in the 1970s, I recall one story of a physicist grant proposal for a basic research study into the theory of relativity being presented as research that would benefit small trajectory changes in rocket launches.

You seem to have a high estimation of the idea of the rest of the world on the leash of imperial America (with the phrase imperial America being apropos for your picture). I suppose American academics doing basic research should also be subjected to domination by the Pentagon, in your view.

Japan has a much less wasteful funding of research with MITI. You don't have scientists wasting time writing bogus grant proposals for basic research being reviewed by people sitting at desks in the Department of Defense.
The era of the camera: Google Lens, one year in
I really like SQL Server, especially the dev environment, 1st and 3rd party management tools. Not sure if they have improved this, but replication was a limiting factor and the pricing changes a few years back pushed it down my preference list.
What's the difference between these and say launcher.gcr.io/google/ubuntu16_04? (aside from not being pinned)
Imperfect leadership, future forecasting, and systems design
Actually they argued e.g. for removing the unemployment insureance.
It is soooooo easy to blame somebody else and that is why we see again and again Russia, China and Iran being blamed for hacking. The USA and EU do not hack. Who believes this BS?
there's nothing to clear up. the statement is a non-denial denial when you read it closely.
It is possible to use the Keurig system with your own coffee grounds and a non-disposable cup:

E.g., https://amzn.to/2LraTIB or https://amzn.to/2RcREHQ

That gives you most of the convenience of a Keurig without the environmental impact.
Available in bulk from Costco. We use these for this reason.
The hype machine: Streetwear and the business of scarcity
Mailchimp disabled my account the other day without any clealr explanation on why. Seems to me like some automation went wrong on their side.
> the product seems to have been re-architected a few times since I used it seven years ago

That's really not what I want to hear about a place I'd be storing data.

Was it just a prototype back then? (When did it stop being a prototype?) Would the creators be comfortable using version 1 still?

Actually, I think that could be a good test of database stability: would you be willing to run a 5 year old version of your own software?
Espresso is IMHO not so convenient to make. You need to prepare every portion separately, filling the filter holder correctly each time etc. This is why I personally switched from a traditional espresso machine to capsules. I still make basic filtered coffee with a normal coffee maker though.
Nope, no one does. But the recent bout of cyberwarfare was directly due to the magnitsky act economically damaging Putin and his inner circle.
I've used a plastic one for probably 2 or 3 years now. Came in a pack of two for about $20. Keurig even makes their own now, so it would likely work quite well.
It's in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
Nespressos take the Keurig concept to another level. They really do produce a near-perfect espresso with no effort required.
Just so. Also, though the western spooks can probably see some of the encrypted traffic through to those companies, if you send it to google or bing, they can see all of it.

And yes, you should be afraid of western spooks if you live in a western country. I wouldn't have said that 10 years ago.
Surely we can't be expected to believe they don't have techniques to re-identify that data.

I suppose that's the subtext of what you wrote, though.
Compared to energy generation that directly produces CO2, if everyone on the planet stopped eating beef today, it would be an insignificant change. It would ever so modestly slow global warming. (Edit: I would note though, that if people gave up beef for chicken you get roughly an 85% reduction per unit of measure of meat! I've personally switched the bulk of my meat consumption to chicken this year without having to drastically change my dietary preferences).

A cow averages 70 and 120 kg of methane a year, this gives us a CO2 equivalent (methane is more powerful than CO2) of about 2300 kg per cow per year. There are 1.3bn to 1.5bn cattle on the planet.

That's an average of 3.22 Gt CO2-equivalent, we're going to produce nearly 40 Gt of ACTUAL CO2 this year.

Sure, transporting/slaughtering/refrigerating the meat adds some actual CO2 production as well for the beef but still, if you add up all methane and CO2 sources I imagine it's less than 3% of global production.
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> The law of non-contradiction is valid for mathematics and propositional logic, not politics and ethics.

The law of noncontradiction is valid everywhere. One can have a meta-ethical view (which would apply to politics insofar as that depends on ethics) that ethical propositions are neither true nor false but simply subjectively preferred behavior or subjectively opposed behavior, but then one wouldn't actually believe any subordinate ethical proposition to be true; noncontradiction would still hold just fine.

But lots of people believe that ethical propositions can be true or false even if they accept some area of preference, and anyone who believes a particular ethical proposition is true must also believe that any contradictory position (the simplest case of which is simple negation) is false.
The purpose of prison should be to keep dangerous people out of society. It costs society to keep people in prison, so naturally this makes sense - in a way it's our tax for the privilege of not having dangerous people around.

Non-violent offenders should not be in prison. Punishing people with prison doesn't fix the problem, better mental health services and education (real education, not lies about drugs == devil) does much better. If you want to punish drug users, you're right (and in morally questionable standing imo) and you'll have to pay for that, but if you want to reduce the drug problem you're not in the right.
>The bill also doesnt address perpetual parole. When I was released after having served time, I was sentenced immediately to additional "parole" for a year and a half... parole says i miss one and I go back to a jail term I technically already served

I'm nitpicking one detail of your overall point here, but you didn't serve the time; that's why you're on parole. If you had served the full sentence there would be no parole.

So you pay an inconvenience tax in exchange for being released. If you violate those terms you go back to serve the remainder of your sentence.

No one is saying it's easy, or that there aren't aspects that couldn't be improved, but I don't see the overarching problem here.
It seems like the use case of a news agency would be better served by storing metadata in a RDMS and using something like HDFS or other file system for the actual articles.
but I still cannot delete it...?
I assume the reason this doesn’t happen is that the land value in first-world countries is too high (i.e. everywhere you’d want to put the landfill, someone wants to do something else with it and is willing to pay more than the landfill is worth to the municipality/state/country that wants to put it there.) And putting the landfill in developing countries (or rather, formalizing the landfill, since we already informally do that) wouldn’t change much, since we would still need a system of trash barges and so forth to get it there.

Also, presumably, we expect these developing countries to, well, develop, at which point their land values will also become high. Eventually, there will be no piece of land on earth with low-enough “rent” for us to just stick trash on. We’ll have globally gentrified the landfill into homelessness.
Every time we point a finger, there are 3 pointing back at US.
If physical waste is not a real issue, why do I see garbage on the ground? Why is there tons of plastic in our oceans? I think there's more to the issue of physical waste than whether or not we can dig a hole big enough for it all.
That is outstanding! Looking for that news is the only reason I waded through the threads. Congratulations.
It's pretty easy to control dosage with number of inhalations. A counterpoint could be that it may be better to give someone a tool to quickly satiate that will be used less frequently. A lower concentration would likely increase the number of 'hits' to satiation, so may increase frequency of use.

Would be interesting to see a model of nicotine satiation.
This is probably an oversimplified explanation, but this xkcd what-if will probably help you quantify the problem of generating light on the level of Sun's output:

https://what-if.xkcd.com/13/
That's ridiculous. Telepolis is tin-foil, crackpot conspiracy-mongering. It being anywhere close in quality to reputable news sources is laughable. It's so far off the mark, I wouldn't even know where to put it on the traditional left/right scale. The "incoherent"<->"this is satire, right?" scale is its natural habitat.