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> But the incompatibility between Python 2 and Python 3 is perhap s only a symptom of a larger problem. The Python developers have decided that backwards compatibility is not that important any more.

Exactly: and that was a wrong decision for anybody but the developers of Python.

Everybody else prefers having something that works: "The improvements are welcome, but please allow us to to run our old programs too, thank you, and allow us to use that new feature only once we need it."

It's an obvious expectation. We would also hate a new version of a word processor which wouldn't open our old documents. Or a new version of Photoshop which wouldn't open our old pictures. Or a new version of the browser where only the newest web pages are visible.

It follows that it was absolutely technically possible to have a new version of Python in which the old programs still work. It's the failure of the developers that they haven't made it.

Compare that decision of theirs with the policy of Linus Torvalds who insists that the old user programs should never break on newer kernels.
I've been using a password manager for almost 10 years now and on the enterprise side there's really none that competes with 1pass. They had some security issues like with their Jira being misconfigured and open to the public, but their marketing and imago is built around them taking security very seriously (for obvious reasons).

personally though, I don't use their offering outside of my work context. Currently, I think bitwarden is maybe the best platform for consumers as its open source, audited by proper security companies and generally very open. I roll with my self-hosted version and I've been nothing but amazed on how good it is to use, even on mobile. Lastpass had way more usability issues (like being totally broken at first on Firefox when they came out with webextensions) and bitwarden's mobile app is at least as good as the one's you'd normally have to pay for. Strong recommendation for bitwarden.
> the very fact that you can verify the result means that you can brute force the outcome

No; you cannot brute-force the outcome in any realistic sense. For example, a Cuckoo Cycle [1] proof consists of 42 n-bit indices of edges that together form a cycle in a random bipartite graph on 2^n+2^n nodes, with typically n >= 29. Brute forcing over all possible size-42 subsets of 2^n indices will take well beyond the heat death of the universe. It's way easier to brute force the 256-bit private keys of all bitcoin balances...

[1] https://github.com/tromp/cuckoo
There's enough nuance in "mentally stable" that having some actual credentials, training, or at least pointing out relevant studies would be useful. Otherwise it does look like you're equate your moral stance with mental health diagnosis.
There are so many stories of small time vendors just thousands of $ of funds frozen out of nowhere, with no way of contacting PayPal about it.

What is their incentive to do this? Is PayPal in the business of randomly hassling people? Is it for the entertainment of some executive?
> Property is an informational concept more than a legal one. The concept of "mine" is present at a very young age, and clearly present in various animal groups.

All money and contracts indicating ownership of property mean nothing without either the consent of all involved or the backing of violence (mind you, our system very much relies on violence, we have people who are empowered to enact violence to enforce property law).

There's also a huge distinction between possession (physically having and using something) and owning it (having the enforceable legal right to control how it is used).

And while this concept of control/territoriality might be naturally present in human psychological development, so are things like trying to use violence to resolve disputes and other asocial aspects of human psychology that we actively discourage. The idea that we should use property as the basis for how society functions is something we seldom interrogate regarding whether it creates the kind of world we actually want.

> It's not clear what a society without property would be like, BTW.

Try reading The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin. It really opened up my mind regarding the way our society is shaped by the idea of ownership.
Indeed, the only compiler benchmark one typically sees are for C/C++. But Lots of developers use other languages, and it would be nice to have a cross-section because each language is so different.

BTW, how much does elixir benefit from multiple cores for compilation?
And I would imagine the sports gambling industry would be covered by this C
VC as well if there’s money in it.
ok, i can get on board with the esports part.

Porn, you can call it anecdotal, but over a decade in that industry taught me, its certainly addictive for some, and is are some very manipulative marketing going on by the smarter companies. But i do see the opposing argument, people get addicted to all kinds of strange things and nothing about porn per se is addicting. it's that ending they are addicted to, not the content.
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Couldn't you use your Android phone as you are using your iPhone? It was your choice after all to go to /r/Android and try out new apps. I am pretty sure you are using the same 90% of apps on iPhone now that you used on your Android. And for the other 10% you could very well have settled on something and be done with it.

I bet you will be looking at /r/Apple in a few months.
I wrote django-postgres-queue for this purpose. It uses postgres transactions to keep queue and application state in sync. It also uses SKIP LOCKED to avoid some of the typical issues with using a database as a queue.

https://github.com/gavinwahl/django-postgres-queue
Yes - about $70k

I know of 1kprojects, Transferslot, flippa, empire flippers and FE international but it's a bit hard to sort through everything to find quality products
Taxation is, broadly, spent on citizens and citizens benefit from that. I pay taxes that cover the police as well as the schooling that lowers the chance of people around me having to resort to crime.
A thread about this is currently on the front page as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21538748
So surprising that it is a woman investing in vice. /s
What is a Headless CMS?
Interesting and sounds very plausible. Typically, for example, I'll add a travel doc for a trip on my desktop and then try to open it in a different location (often country) on my phone for the first time.

Maybe worth me submitting a feature request that facilitates making checked items available offline (like I think Dropbox/Google Docs iOS apps support).
You can't just change the goal posts to cause your argument to have more weight. This entire post has nothing to do with where you work or work at all: it's to do with a consumer laptop being released and you know right well we're talking about buying this for personal use.
https://yt-project.org/ -- yt for python was used by a few of my old colleagues for visualizing astrophysical simulations. There is yet another program that I've since forgotten but will try to come back here and comment if I remember.

If you can generate a single static figure, you can manually generate animations by generating each frame separately using your favorite plotting software. You can then stitch them together using many different tools (I use matplotlib) to generate an animation (video, gif, etc.).

What language do you like to use? What's your background -- are you a Matlab person?
I was trying to read it on an iPhone using Safari. The mobile "experience" is way, way worse compared to that on a big screen. At least two thirds of my screen estate were blocked by popups and that's how the vast majority of (mobile) users are going to experience it as well.
No problem on my side of things running Docker at home on an R5 2600. I heard there were a few problems with IOMMU in the beginning but it should be long gone.
Considering AMD's getting into the server market pretty convincingly I don't think you'll have issues on the sysadmin side.

If you've got any problem it's gonna be from dodgy BIOSes and half-compatible hardware, the kind of stuff you might get running an older AM4 motherboard.
I find the use of a ProtonMail address to be interesting. Don't they require the use of an existing email address, phone number, or credit card/PayPal donation to create an account? I just tried creating an account via Tor for test purposes, and it was immediately disabled "for abuse or fraud".

Couldn't this mean that some entity could submit a legal request to ProtonMail for said information in the event of an investigation?

Edit: The site is also hosted on Squarespace. Why not something more anonymous, like an onion service, IPFS, ZeroNet, etc?
I didn't mean to imply "must," just that anonymous data can't be trusted unless there is some out of band way to verify it.
I actually know a couple of people who simply don't own cell phones at all. They're certainly an extreme minority, but their lives aren't any harder for it. The only repercussion is that they can't get/send calls or texts when they're out and about.
The main problem is cost effectiveness. If it costs twice as much per unit of power for a building-level installation vs utility-level, then it's a hard sell. Cheaper to just buy utility-grade power from the grid.

It's also a question of retrofit vs new construction. Building it right into a new building is definitely going to be cheaper than adding it to an existing building.

What I expect to see more of is solar panels in parking lots. Easy to build over, and lots of otherwise wasted space. Plus you're getting power during business hours.
Not to mention the fact that the pixel 4 looks to be a big disappointment for the money. I was planning on getting a pixel as I don't want another Samsung (vendor crap-ware and bixby drives me insane), but now that I've seen it... looks like I'll be going back to Apple again after five years of Android.
Alberto Cairo recently released his "How Charts Lie". It's a delightful read.

https://www.amazon.com/How-Charts-Lie-Getting-Information/dp...
Those talking points are 100% true.

Uber started in San Francisco. You could not get a cab on the weekend for any amount of $. You could not get a cab to come to the "tough" neighborhoods. This is 100% fact. I once called 4x and was told one was coming - falsely (I did live in what was then a "bad" neighborhood). My roommate walked across the entire city.

Uber started with licensed transit vehicles - now called uber black. It was only when other folks started doing private party cars that they copied that with UberX (oddly they briefly had some moves towards pushing for enforcement against the unlicensed folks but saw that customers didn't care).

But the underlying issues - incredibly bad service (talking on phone, smoking, credit card machine "broken") and lack of availability - despite the industry being "regulated" were VERY real. That's what got them going.

The other reality - they have FORCED the taxi industry to up their game. You can almost always now pay with credit cards in a taxi, you can call a taxi with an app, you can sometimes even review your taxi driver.
That's exactly what TextSecure (now Signal) used to do[0]. Since the code is open-source, somebody has forked the SMS code and apparently kept it alive[1]. (It's even on both F-Droid and Google Play.)

[0] https://lwn.net/Articles/638621/

[1] https://git.silence.dev/Silence/Silence-Android/
i don't need millions messages per second for my job queues, i'm not google.
Please star my repo, it would mean a lot to me(i am trying to beat my star count om my Snake game made in Go )
Well, as anecdotal data, LastPass got acquired by LogMeIn a few years ago, and since that time, it has introduced practically no new features, yet the yearly membership price has risen from $12/yr to $36/yr.

That's what happens when the scrappy young company with a valuable product gets acquired. Research and Development stops, Rent-Seeking skyrockets. Every time.
I think PayPal might've publicly said that this is solely because porn poses a greater risks and SFW businesses just due to the amount of actually fraudulent payments and account hacking performed to pay for porn. Also, there's the less obvious issue with charge backs and people lying about getting hacked and having to deal with all that.
wheres the disruptive fintech for these underbanked? Sounds like a gold mine for the right marketing team.
More details at https://www.ford.com/powertrains/battery-electric-vehicles/ with a live reveal on Nov-17 at 6pm PST.
Bruh, folks are making an informed decision - and landing on PostgreSQL. Their scenario/conclusion is just different than yours.

It's not lazy, blind or selfish as you claim - and frankly when you disagree with authority & condescended tone - it's a turn off.
> debugging is still at printf level style and reading raw bytecodes

Wasmtime has had support for source-level debugging via lldb or gdb for a few months https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/09/debugging-webassembly-outs...
That is an extra step which will make people spend less money.

Imagine if every time you wanted to buy a cup of coffee or a video game you had to buy a special currency to do it? I bet less of both would be sold
That it hasn't since publication in 2015 indicates they missed something.
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Or, in the case of my employer (and new ecosystem for me), we are using Jython which AFAIK has no clear plans or path to support Python 3 at this time. Iron Python has started work to support 3 but it's still in development and seems to be a ways off.
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> If someone wanted other than the core Python team wants to step up and maintain Python 2, they are free to do so, it's open source.

Only if they name it something completely different from python or py-anything. Guido refuses to allow anyone to just step in to maintain py2.

Tauthon is a project that aims to keep compatability with py2 while adding whatever features of py3 that won't break py2 and to have a maintained py2.

https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon
Ted Kennedy has been dead for a decade. More recently, the president said that the noise from wind turbines gives people cancer. In the end they are just two people that are wrong.

"NIMBYism" is a word that turns off critical thought in some people and ruins discussions.

There is a large inventory of coastlines with wind energy potential. There will be many distractions as they are developed by coal companies trying to derail those projects. That may be through astroturfing which will present itself as "NIMBYism" and divides people to weaken them.
pretty strange... are you browsing via desktop/laptop or mobile device?
Interestingly, Broadwell-S and Broadwell-R did this using the "Crystal Well" L4 cache.

However, DDR4 memory now provides more bandwidth than the L4 could (although probably at a higher latency).
> Implying wealth taxes aren't sane
i cant even make the logic jump to compare these too. Uber isn't just a place people post about needing rides and then pick from one of the respondents.

hardly comparable.
I don't really get how they reached their conclusion. It seems like on most of the tests this new part gets beat by a cheaper one from Intel. It seems like a kinda unfair approach to use handbrake without AVX-512 support? Also not sure why they include the 3-d particle thing without AVX ... I guess because Intel is just too fast on that?

If you look through the results, the things most people want to do with a computer, like browse the web and start their applications, are noticeably faster with the Intel i9-9900K at half the price. And the only game where the CPU makes a difference in these benchmarks is also a lot faster with the Intel part.
I feel quite the opposite - stock Pixel 2, FF is snappier even with uBlock and SmartHTTPS enabled. I also enjoy features like the "Switch" popup bar when you open a new tab, once I have to use Chrome again for that one random website and start opening tabs from clicks I instantly start missing the ease of use FF mobile brings which Chrome does not in my use patterns.

Also, it's a lot easier to de-clutterify the main default screen and set a simple about:blank as the home page without having to dig into about:config (chrome://flags) - Chrome loves to hide things from you and force their world view (NTP), Firefox makes it all simple to disable and live a clutter-free mobile life. $0.02 USD :) (I just counted - I have to go disable 5 NTP chrome://flags to de-clutter the home page, whereas Firefox I just use standard menu choices to set a default home page)
I do not know, but have a suspicion, the esports gambling is a bit more intertwined with the esports itself. I'd be surprised if we don't have some scandals come out of that, if anyone ever decides to take a close look.
Health care, roads, education, police, unemployment benifit, child care... where do you think taxes go that DOESNT benifit the employee?
About 10 years ago I started learning Python. I double-timed across both versions. I decided to land on v3 for good. I haven't looked back. Granted that Big Corp cannot have such flexible actions. I reserve sympathy.
> Problems do tend to look a lot simpler once someone else has solved them for you

This is so true. I wonder if there's a law named for this phenomenon?

Off topic, but I find many managers fall into this trap. I.e. they don't recognize the difference between when someone exceptionally bright solving a problem very quickly and just moves on vs. a mediocre thinker who takes an inordinate amount of time to solve a problem, but then advertises their accomplishment like a metal of valor (and managers typically fall for it).
All good points. I suppose my bias is skewed by having a good amount of instrument time and realizing how much higher a workload can get during an instrument approach. I’ll run it by some colleagues at work and see what their take is on it.
this article doesn't deal at all with DNS so kinda misses like the biggest centralization flaw on the internet but whatever
yes this is true, but when you are an employee the goverment gets slightly more money because of things like FICA.
I would love to see now PostgreSQL going more into improving developer's expierience. Job queues, job scheduler, packages.
That's an excellent point. This could be an elaborate long-con watering hole attack.
I had a cat that freaked out when he smelled oranges. I always thought he associated it with an orange scented shampoo we used once on him.
As far as I can see most of the reviews have mentioned how the 3950x is able to hit the advertised boost, so it looks like AMD is paying attention.
I see a lot of climate change articles that talk about what should be done, but none of them talk about why we should do anything. Considering that a vast portion of the population still doesn't believe it's a huge problem, they really should explain why climate change is a big problem. they don't give any details at all, only vague references to doomsday: "a catastrophic implications for the climate of this planet". How do they expect people to be convinced to do anything when no reasons or explanations are given.
> Who wants to break old SQL? Nobody.

Every couple of months there's a new startup / dev site that says "SQL is broken/old/bad, so we reinvented it!". They all sink without trace, but there's a cohort who agrees with them.
Took over an American city's computer system weeks ago. They’re getting paid
Why is nuclear the only option? NYC just made a deal with Quebec to buy hydro power.
For some context, I switched the other way, and still use both, and ever so slightly prefer the Pixel 2XL to an iPhone XS. It's probably more the integration of google services than anything, and google has taken some major steps backwards, but theres a ton of little silly features that I enjoy about the Goog.

Like it telling me what song is playing from lock screen, while offline. Certain maps and local features are just better.
A brilliant little piece of fiction. As far as I can tell, you're QWxhbiBUdXJpbmcgZHVyaW5nIFdvcmxkIFdhciBJSQ== accused of stealing part of the Bombe. Though I found a couple of successful paths, some of the "bad" endings aren't quite what I expected. Personally, I found the path where dGhlIGludGVycm9nYXRvciBzeW1wYXRoaXplcyB3aXRoIEFsYW4gYW5kIGltcGxpZXMgdGhhdCBoZSBoaW1zZWxmIGhhcyBoYWQgaG9tb3NleHVhbCBhZmZhaXJz to be the most interesting and heartwarming.

(Spoilers base64 encoded.)
Are there any examples of rewrites of large code bases from one language to another?
I see dead ones at the San Gorgonio wind farm all the time. I imagine the maintenance situation is even worse for offshore installations.
Bitcoin isn't criticized for this being an invalid use case, because it's totally valid.

It's criticized because it's useless for this use case, people involved in this scene in practice don't care about it to any serious degree beyond it being a talking point, and because anything for legally working around financial deplatforming still needs strong interfacing with the rest of the system as well as compliance with legal regimes, which BTC has nothing to say on that.

In fact, you can make your own payments platform denominated in USD and that's as useful as BTC for legal activities. So why go through the extra steps?
That's generally accurate. Per-thread ("single-thread") performance is the dominant factor in gaming performance. Even in multi-threaded games there is usually a critical thread that is limiting performance. Amdahl's Law: never not applicable.
Why not just migrate to 3?

genuinely curious...
So, can you only "mine" bat by watching ads?
Implementation of NB can be much more interesting than that:

- try different models for the likelihood (the author mentioned Gaussian, Bernoulli, and Multinomial which are part of scikit but didn't bother to implement them)

- understand how the "naive" assumption makes implementation easier but less expressive (author mentions it in words but pictures are critical here, e.g. the Gaussian case)

- using log probabilities for numerical stability

- reframing the model as a linear model
The neon signs in Japanese are also mostly gibberish. (You can even get a T-shirt with the nonsensical neon signs from this Japanese site: https://www.ttrinity.jp/product/2353750)
Identity is basically a combination of certain Verified Claims about yourself, signed by some third parties. Given enough of these, you can uniquely identify one or a few people in a given population.

These are all things that we should have a say in how they is used, instead of unilateral usage by third parties such as credit reporting agencies, social networks and banks.

We need to fund tech that gives us the power over our own identity! Like telling friends who you are on some networks and not others, instead of Instagram and Telegram assuming all your FB friends or phone contacts should know.

I like Mozilla’s fund too. I like NIST’s NSTIC grants. We need more!

Identity is important for reputation and so on. But we have to unbundle the claim verification service from the certificate, we should make it so you can’t be tracked between domains. One Government ID or Facebook ID for everything may be one of the least libertarian and least secure ways to do it.

So if you more info and SOLUTIONS just check out:

https://github.com/Qbix/auth

http://magarshak.com/blog/?p=114

https://qbix.com/blog/2018/08/28/vision-for-a-new-truly-dece...