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Ask HN: Could Python be reborn in the image of Go?
(Disclaimer: I'm not a CS major and I'm generally a novice at software engineering, so I have no idea if what I'm proposing is crazy or not)

I've been noticing the increase in projects using Go seemingly to replace other existing projects written in Python. Go seems to have a strong following now due to a couple of useful features, but it's still a new language, whereas Python is an established language that many people enjoy writing code in. The question is, could Python be updated to include the kinds of core features that make Go attractive, while still retaining its Pythonisms?

Go's strengths seem to be in its static types, concurrency features, static analysis tools, lack of generics, and compiled binaries. I could be wrong, but it seems like all of these (save maybe the improved concurrency) could be added to Python and be a strong competitor to Go. Most of the language could remain the same, but it could then be adopted in places that Go is gaining a foothold. The main purpose would be to increase the utility of the existing body of knowledge around Python, and increase its usefulness.

Am I crazy?
Yeah, the ironic part is that roi for advertisers on google search is low to negative. Not only does google sell its keywords, thus perverting the index itself, they also fleece the advertisers who seem to do buys solely to "keep up with the joneses". Most actually results-based advertising will avoid organic search buys; but most digital marketing companies are not results-based.
I'm aware that we will not be able to retain this policy forever, however not going to change it before it has to.

Also, I'm glad that you believe that we will get to 10k employees. Currently beyond the scope of my own ambition.
Maybe they do, but in the US FFS re-imbursement regime, it's what they do.

That said - it is still ridiculous simply because the doctor can't do anything about whatever I might be most commonly sick for (migraine, flu, bad cold, bad seasonal allergy). I'll happily go to the doctor when I have a broken leg or a heart attack, but I'd prefer to stay home and sleep in a dark room and drink water when I have the flu...
Why Soda Companies Switched from Sugar to High-Fructose Corn Syrup
As they ask in Polanski's "The Ghost": Has the UK ever acted against US interests?
No, I mean autonomous too. Autonomous vehicles still want access to GPS, you still want to know where your stuff is, you still want to be able to give new orders if something changes, etc.
This^^

Plenty of competitors that are more than willing to cash in on any changes. Can twitter afford to lose out in this regard..?
> I see every person on this thread thinks they aren’t part of the problem.

It depends on what problem you're referring to. People going onto private property and damaging locations are a special kind of asshole. They're not regular tourists.
I agree that dumping a project in the hopes that someone else will swoop in to do the hard part is a pipe dream. OP is going to find out quickly that it just doesn't happen.

But you lost me here. I don't see how most developers would think there's some issue with dumping code on Github.

For example, I could recommend some avenues for finding useful software that aren't trawling through random Github projects, if that's the problem. If Github had 100x more dead projects, it really shouldn't affect anyone.
"literally injecting air into your veins"

Wait, giving yourself an air embolism? Yikes. I don't know the odds, but that can definitely kill you.
Why couldn't such a system be implemented in a centralized manner?
You may be roght but i think you have causal relationships reversed.

World war 2 was set in motion the moment the WW1 peace agreement was codified.

Who is to say that WW3 was not started the moment an intrepid set of bureaucrats set about merging a diverse range of populations that have nothing in common whatsoever?

Remember Yugoslavia? Do you know what they did?

EU is yugoslavia 2.0
Exactly: a 3d-printed matrix for stem-cells sounds like it could have a ton of exciting applications!
Raspberry Pis have a ton of RAM. Most old ones have 512 or 1024 MB, and new RPi4s up to 4 GB.

If something runs on a Raspberry Pi, that's not exactly a proof it's light weight.
http://npic.orst.edu/factsheets/degen.html

Diatomaceous Earth is a dusty substance made from the shells of tiny sea creatures. The shells are so tiny (and then ground finer) they wedge into the exoskeletons of insects and eventually kill the bbugs. But it's pretty safe for larger animals and safe for home use
That is fair, and indeed, there are a bunch of genetic disorders that can (and are) screened for prenatally, see:

https://women.texaschildrens.org/program/high-risk-pregnancy...
Is there any chance that this was done on purpose?
There is a memory overhead associated with guarded heap allocations. The time overhead is only applicable when creating or destroying them.

For encrypted data there is virtually no memory overhead but a guarded allocated has to be created to hold the decrypted data when it is needed.

The root encryption key is stored within a special container [0, 1] that has some small but constant CPU overhead as it is continuously mutating the memory associated with the structure in the background. This overhead can be tweaked (or even virtually eliminated) by changing the interval between successive cycles.

[0] https://spacetime.dev/encrypting-secrets-in-memory

[1] https://spacetime.dev/memory-retention-attacks
I think there's a strange double-standard where men are painted as weak or vain for worrying about hair loss, while at the same time the media portrays a thick head of hair - which is probably not realistic for a majority of men in their late 20's and beyond - as part of the definition of attractiveness. A huge number of celebrities, who serve as the model for what men "should" look like, either use hairpieces or have undergone hair replacement surgery. I don't think it's any wonder it's a source of stress for many men.
> what has the UK done for the EU?

You do know that the driving force behind the Single Market was Margaret Thatcher? Much of its legislation was set up initially to benefit the UK, and still does. Quite apart from that, there are plenty of individual pieces of legislation that originate in the UK.

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/2018/07/09/british-influence-...

I am very happy to agree that the UK has never fully felt at home in the EU, but it is definitely wrong to say that our membership was never in the EU's best interest.
Another issue is that some have trichotillomania, which causes them to nervously pull out their own hair. Lots of causes. But that aside, there are many more men with hair loss then women [0] [1]. Opinions aside, there are objectively significantly more men than women who have the problem. Women also can cover it more due to longer hair. Not reasonable to call comments "male centric" when the majority of people with hair loss are male.

[0] https://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/hair-loss...

[1] https://www.creditdonkey.com/hair-loss-statistics.html
Thank god Linux gives you multiple desktop options. I am happily using "Windows 98 style" XFCE.

To be fair there probably hundreds of subtle improvements over Windows 98, but no horrendous game changers like when Ubuntu went from Gnome to Unity.
>One of the reasons that few people swim in >deep water is because there are some >number of sharks there.

I can't help but think even if there were no sharks at all the amount of people swimming in deep water would not increase that much, because I find it likely that the other causes of people not swimming in deep water have a much greater effect on how many people actually swim in deeper water.

Also there are people now who swim in deep water specifically to swim with Sharks.
Energy and Policy Considerations for Deep Learning in NLP
Google spent 3.5 million lobbying so far this year and 21 million last year. They know exactly who is a "real candidate"[0]

[0]https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D00006782...
Happy 100th Birthday, James Lovelock
“Make it like Apple ” Why imitation is the sincerest form of failure
> none of the applications are actually worth the hassle

That's my take as well. Complexity for the complexity fetishists among us.
> If built correctly it's genuinely difficult to mess things up.

...but that also implies that it can built in such a way that it's genuinely difficult to improve, too, right?

I worked in state government for a while, and I noticed that whenever the governor switched, all the upper management switched too. All the new people would be gunning to start some big initiative that would look good on their resume (and they'd not be around for the aftermath). There was a lot of institutionalized inertia resistant to these efforts, which I eventually decided was basically survivorship bias - anything not resistant to change would stumble and fail in the face of such regular (and often wasteful!) pet projects. What resulted was the stereotypical concept of bureaucracy today.

But here you are saying that such inertia can be designed into the system. Interesting...
Not OP, but thanks for this advice. I left a similar situation, and relaxation and re-normalization has been slow to arrive.
What they seem to be saying is not that the data hasn't leaked, but that it likely does not even exist. If that's true, a headline of "X has been copied" would be wrong if X didn't exist.
I am still clinging to the old Reddit design.

I also am still on Mac OSX Sierra.

Yeah.
Not for the purpose for quantifying the wealth of someone who owns no slaves.

And slavery is a definitionally different situation because a slave has absolutely no leverage to negotiate for their interests, so whatever quantification of a slave's value and consequent slave owner's net worth is not generalizable to relationships between free people except in very extreme situations.

Another way of looking at this is that all else equal, when freed, a former slave's net worth goes up by a constant factor based on their new status and rights.
One trick I learned a while ago is that stepping back as far as possible and taking pictures of people taking pictures is far more interesting than yet another picture of the same thing.

There are only so many interesting photos of the Mona Lisa. But there are an infinite number of interesting photos of people maniacally taking photos of the Mona Lisa. If you're lucky, you might snap a pic of an instagrammer falling off a cliff, or getting hit by a truck.
Three Ways to Define Functions in JavaScript”
Taking a two week vacation to Europe can be enjoyable, but it is certainly not going to make you a better person.
>>Not even close, let's take a basic fundamental US principle like the right to free speech, it doesn't exist in the UK.

Sadly, this is correct, but I believe the UK has less constrained speech than continental Europe. I'd love to see a right to free speech brought into force in the UK

>>The UK has had relation ships with most of the European countries for longer than the US has existed.

This is also true, but neglects the fact that US was founded by Britain and was a British colony for 170 years. US law is based on English common law.
A TLA+ Specification of Peterson's Algorithm
I haven't played with it, but I know that there's https://neocities.org/ which is a spiritual successor.
Thank you that was great!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz9Nad0bxDU
I wish I had acknowledged the fact that I suffer from severe anxiety disorder instead of believing that everybody else was wrong.

For most of my work life (20+ years) I suffered from severe anxiety that led to fits of anger, resentment, self pity.

After facing enough consequences (being fired, quitting in anger) I finally looked at myself hard in the proverbial mirror and asked for help and went to therapy.

My favorite books are from Jocko Willink:
- Extreme Ownership
- The dichotomy of leadership
- Discipline Equals Freedom

Mainly leadership books that I use to be better at leading myself.
In the GTK+ 2.x era, I would have agreed with you. GTK+ was either the basis for or easily themeable to feel reasonably native under any Linux desktop environment and, because of the applications which depend on it, pretty much everyone is likely to have it already installed.

Unfortunately, in the GTK+ 3.x era and beyond, the perspective of many KDE users is that hell has frozen over because GTK+ has supplanted MacOS as the GUI with the most alien feel to it.

(Plus, the LXDE developers started a transition to GTK+ 3.x, got fed up, and decided that their upgrade path from GTK+ 2.x would be Qt 5. They then merged with Razor-Qt to form LXQt.)

Personally, what rubs me the wrong way the most is the various ways in which it explicitly goes against what HCI research recommends because the GNOME people just liked it better their way. (And I've read quotes by the devs showing that they now see GTK+ as GNOME's toolkit first and other desktops are on their own if they don't want to ride along... which explains things like how long it took them to stabilize the GTK+ 3.x theming APIs.)

I still might consider it if the gtk3-mushrooms patchset for making GTK+ 3.x less alien weren't a single-person, amateur effort that's only packaged for Archlinux.

(https://github.com/krumelmonster/gtk3-mushrooms)
More recent post about the project: https://spacetime.dev/encrypting-secrets-in-memory
I took a side job in a machine shop over the winter.I was loading parts in and out of CNC machines, doing a little setup, cutting metal, made one fixture, and a lot of floor mopping. I thought the manual labor was going to make me appreciate the cushy desk job work that I normally do, but I absolutely loved working in the shop.

I wrote an email to friends and family about, hit me up via my email in my profile and I'm happy to share it with you.

I'm trying to find a similar part-time apprentice position in NYC where I live now - any suggestions?
There's magazines like this one (https://www.agweb.com/farmjournal); however it sounds like we'd have different ideas of small though. Outside of direct to consumer farmers market type opperations, "small" farms in the US are still measured in thousands of acres (just, 4 figures instead of 6).

The meta markets in how and when you sell crops (pre sale on the futures market vs sale at harvest, vs store and wait for commodities prices to be ideal) is, honestly fascinating and so different from the image of the "farmer" in popular culture.
I'd say yeah, I bought PragmataPro because it's a work of art and has great ligature support. Operator Mono is another popular choice.
If you look, there's an excellent paper on an academic team that did a low cost construction project on a small mill for micromachining. They achieved very high accuracy with fairly ordinary components.

Here's one link to the project:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
Survey results show that this is exactly the case.

Here's a survey across three age groups of women. Around a third of women across age groups feel neutral about bald men. The youngest women (18-24) are generally unattracted by bald men (47%), while among the oldest women (35-44), 44% find baldness at least slightly attractive. The middle age-group had intermediate preferences.

So yes, if you are younger, baldness could presumably hurt your dating life, while older men are probably significantly less affected.

https://www.primandprep.com/do-women-like-bald-men/
The Crimea didn't vote anything. Crimea was invaded by Russian army. "Referendum" was military action, with intention to distract people. I.e. it was just show, yet another Russian fake, not a real thing.
Those professionals use desktops, not the fanless, battery powered, port-less, glue and solder mess that is the current Macbook lineup.
There's a "jury" too?

A decentralized system that depends on a central source of authority? Who are the jury members? How are they selected, and by whom? How are they held accountable for their actions? How are their biases accounted for? How do we know they're not in collusion with the mods or other users?

>Karma component will only kick in, once the user has been identified as a bad actor by a jury. So you will never be able to bring bot accounts and just mass downvote.

So my downvotes don't count when the jury likes the person I'm voting against?
I think Unreal wins there because the engine is open source and modifiable whereas Unity's is not.
Lost me in the first paragraph. Manifestly, the buck stops with the shareholders. Acting like culturing "trust" can be pinched off from prioritizing shareholders over other stakeholders (users) is disingenuous.
So you haven't thought very deeply into this? Those statements don't tell me anything - I can say there's the colour white, but that's actually made up of a spectrum of colours. I ask because if you haven't thought deeply into it, how are you confident that your macro statements are accurate?
The Miles Davis autobiography is really really good. It's a great primer in jazz history too, and how he'd helped shape it. I listened to all the records by Dizzy/Bird/etc while reading the book and it was sort of transformative experience. Highly recommended read.

It's crazy how he wasn't just a musical force in terms of writing music or transforming the genre itself, but how he consistently found/groomed some of the best musicians as part of his various bands. I suppose Joe Zawinul is somewhat similar in his Syndicate projects, consistently discovering the best musicians, especially bassists...
Thanks! Great resource; bookmarked.
It’s absolutely the swimming effect.

To any fully-haired people who don’t believe it, shave your head as if you’re going bald, then go to a club alone and see how much fun you have. Prediction: probably not much
I know people really hate Comic Sans, but it has some really useful properties.

One particularly useful property, especially in the education sector, is that dyslexics typically find it decidedly easier to read. Comic Sans uses distinct shapes for each character, e.g. no 'p' rotated to be 'q', and a variety of different sizes, all of which help make it easier for dyslexics.

AIGA article on the subject: https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/sad-but-true-comic-sans-might-j...

From a bit by the British Dyslexic Association:
https://bdatech.org/what-technology/typefaces-for-dyslexia/
Studies showed the following characteristics as being desired:

* Good ascenders and descenders, b, d, f, h, k, l, t, and all capitals; g, j, p, q, y.
* b and d; p and q distinguished, not mirror images.
* Different forms for capital I, lowercase l and digit 1.
* Rounded g as in handwriting. Most liked rounded a, although perhaps some felt that it may be confused with o.
* Letter-spacing, e.g. r, n together rn should not look like m, (‘modern’ may scan as, or sound like, ‘modem’.)

And their summary on Comic Sans MS:
"It meets all dyslexic ‘likes’ except mirrored b and d."
Show HN: A script to generate IPv6 PTR records from AAAA records
That's because the world decided to adopt software as a service model, where your device is just a thin client and real work is happening on a server. And that model is incompatible with letting customers to run old versions.
Eventually. Voluntarily with reparations or after Russian state collapse.
True, nevertheless in principle it is possible for voters en bloc to express democratic power over the choice of President.
Wow!! Thank you so much for sharing this; I hadn’t seen it before. Do you happen to know if there is video of the entire performance?
It wasn't held on the basis on leaving with a deal either. It was a high level question which at that level is simple -- leave or stay. That simplicity doesn't change however complex the implementation details are (or can be made to be).

And a second vote would solve nothing -- why would the losers honour the outcome of a second referendum when the losers of the first refused to honour that one?
Cybersecurity Firm Drops Code for the Dangerous Windows ‘BlueKeep’ Vulnerability
A quick script I created to easily create PTR records and make my work easier. Any feedback/improvements are appreciated!
Nice Jean-Luc Picard reference at the very end.
This one didn't work for me either. Siri had been disabled for quite a while. But, I'm on a work laptop, so perhaps IT caused the problem in the first place.
The thing is: The moment you feel you could be observed or that you have no room for private thought or discussion, you start to censor yourself. Political discourse starts to get weakened.

My gut feeling is this: Many people don't dare to express their true opinions even in supposedly private channels, fearing that these thoughts / ideas might come back at them years later. And I don't even mean radical thoughts.

In a world where we non-americans are asked for our cellphone passwords, laptops, social media handles and passwords, how can we dare to criticize world affairs?

Or imagine you are a young ambitious person who wants to change something by participating in the political process. You spend years getting somewhere, and then comes an info out of nowhere about your past and stops your carreer abruptly (like you cheated on your university diploma or something like that).
Kind of an aside, but I hope such a virtual dog sitter never comes to fruition for the sake of your dog. Dogs shouldn’t be alone for that long!
What monsters put compile-time programming over concurrency and pattern matching?
So, you test this animal and it’s within 2% of a known lion. How do you know the known lion is a lion?
Why Teams Still Need Leaders
Huh. It says, "losing the public’s faith." When did we ever trust them?

I can't argue with, "Reality: Trust is managed from the inside out — by running a good business." And the article does throw out there companies that tried. But the reality is 99% of the companies of the world are, by their nature, selfish entities, and will eventually degrade into doing untrustworthy things. It's the nature of the beast.

And those of us that deal with them, while potentially gaining some benefit, should treat them with suspicion. Any "faith" is misplaced.
Not by a long shot! I would say Italy's had the US beat there for centuries. Probably South Korea also. I'd wager men under 30 in London probably also invest more time and money in their appearance than almost any group of men in the US.
> Every change causes people to question why they use the site in the first place.

I was using twitter to follow very few, high quality feeds, and with this new update it was made clear that the intended usage is the opposite. No more twitter for me, I'm back to good old RSS feeds.

Beside that, I can't believe anyone would find the new design better than the old one on a monitor, the menu has more presence than the actual tweets.
- Report to Greco, Nikos Kazantzakis
The 100M Bacteria on Apples May Be Key to Their Health Benefits
UK is not a single person, what one government body does may be very different from the other.
Good point, you're totally right! I don't think they covered that in the book. Here's the relevant chapter if calculations on flight: http://withouthotair.com/c5/page_35.shtml
> That option is now gone,

....No, it's really not.

You can still turn WiFi and Bluetooth off (really off) from the Settings app, and they will stay off until you turn them back on.

You can even turn them back on from Control Center.
MQTT is interesting for IoT devices. Theses devices are low power, low memory, low speed, may have intermittent connections.

The alternative to MQTT wouldn't be HTTP or WebSockets, but actual sockets.

MQTT is simple to implements and doesn't require much performance. Many of its implementations don't support its QoS feature that retries because the embedded processor doesn't have enough memory.