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I have been very happy with the quality of mine!

Due to software updates, my car is faster, safer, and more efficient than when I bought it 9 months ago. That's pretty wild, and something I've never seen with another car.
Correct. I meant that as I haven't seen it in the alphabet, so I decided that it's not base64. Don't follow my path of foolishness.
Yes, but that insistence that Bytes and Unicode are two different things that Shall Not Be Mixed was mostly a Python 3-ism. Python 2 had different types but you could be sloppy and it would kinda work out.

There was this assumption that Unicode code points were the correct single unit to talk about Unicode. You iterate over code points, you talk about string lengths in terms of code points, you slice in terms of code points. Much like the infamy of 16-bit Unicode, this is an assumption that has kinda gotten worse over time. Now we can and do want to talk about bytes, code points, and newer sets like extended grapheme clusters. I think this is probably the big failing of Python 3's Unicode model. Making a string type operate on extended grapheme clusters might fix it, but we'd be in for the same sort of pain, and the flexibility of "everything is bytes, we can iterate over it differently" of Go and Rust is much nicer in comparison.

The second thing was this assumption that everything remotely looking like text was Unicode, despite this maybe not being true. HTTP has parts that look like plain text, like "GET" and "POST" and the headers like "Content-Type: text/html". But the correct way to view this as ASCII bytes, and no other encoding makes sense; binary data intermixed with "plain text" definitely happens, and the need to pick and choose between either Unicode or Bytes caused major damage in the standard library which still persists to this day -- some parts definitely chose the wrong side. Take a look at the craziness in the "zipfile" module for one other example. It's probably fixed now, but back then, I basically had to rewrite it from scratch in one of my other projects.

They eventually relented and added back a lot of the conveniences to blur the line between bytes and unicode again, like adding the % formatting operator for bytes, which I think shows that their insistence on separating the two didn't really pan out in practice. And yet, migration is still a pain.
Planes dumped hundreds of tons of food for stray animals in Australia
I believe they have a free medicine program for people without insurance and copay subsidies for people with it. It appears to be handled on a case by case basis (https://www.vertexgps.com/)
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Yes you can easily search by congressperson on that website
> If an employer has 100 applicants, half of which have a high school degree or less, then they're just going to toss those applications and interview the other half simply as a matter of cost/time savings and risk reduction.

If this was as simple, the high school dropouts would just lie about not graduating from high school. It's not like the employer would ever find out about that.
Isn’t that the definition of a publisher? They publish your content in a chosen format and you get a cut of the profits?
Either way, Amazon, for instance, has a service for publishing books.
It's not obvious to me that your assessment is even close to accurate, so it would help to know more about which countries you've observed and also where can we find data on this topic.

My observation would be more like: there are less regulated and less bountiful countries, and there are more regulated and more bountiful countries, but I don't know of less regulated more bountiful countries.
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Is there any specific reason for this?
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OK, mea culpa.

It was basically an emotional response to the idea.

I suppose that at least, not having a smartphone, I'm not sharing stuff about others. Except for the number, which is already ~widely known. But I wasn't thinking that when I wrote the comment.
So his first instinct was to waste hours on this debugging instead of just googling the error message and finding the cause within seconds?
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Do you have an example of a purchasable product that works with existing electrical systems?
No, the mainstream physics reply is "It's a quantized excitation of the electromagnetic field." since that's a perfectly reasonable reply to a perfectly reasonable question.
I'm not well informed about the breaking changes made under the hood in Python 3. But I wonder if breaking backwards compatibility in this case wasn't simple an externalization of costs. The community certainly went through a TON of work to port libraries, etc. Could all those man-hours have gone towards making incremental, backwards compatible changes instead?

I think the takeaway is that if you want to make breaking changes, make a new thing and turn the old thing over to a maintenance team. If after a while you learn some things that could improve the old thing see if they can be incorporated without breaking compatibility or if the new thing is really so much better people will switch.
You're probably right, but these kinds of insane, all-encompassing non-compete clauses are pretty common in most large corporations (at least in my understanding), and if I were to leave I'd be sacrificing all my stock grants and the like. There's no point in me quitting if I don't think I can get something better.

I could of course go to a startup or something, but I have a wife in school and a mortgage to pay. I don't really mind upheaving my life to take a bit of a risk on a startup, but I think it might be a bit selfish if there's a risk of it causing problems for other people.
Vertex has been playing hardball. They came to an agreement with Scotland last September and England in October, but other agreements are coming slowly. It is a real hardship for patients following Trikafta on Twitter and reading every day about gaining 30 points of lung function after only a few weeks, but not having the treatment available.

CF patients may have close to a normal lifespan with Trikafta, assuming that progress is made on treating some common infections, such as a pseudomonas aeruginosa. That means a lot of patients getting a very expensive drug for a very long time.
It seems your analysis isn't very generous. Your example would likely fail the litmus test laid out in the first paragraph on at least these points (at the very least):

- a mission that attracts talented people into the startup’s orbit

- a product so good that people spontaneously tell their friends about it

- a network effect and low marginal costs

- and a product that is either fundamentally new or 10x better than existing options.
I recently rented 2 different Model S cars (through Turo), one 4 years old, the other 6. The 4-year old car was in great shape, and worked perfectly, but it also needed some software updates. The 6-year old car was a bit worn inside and had some technical issues, but mechanically solid on a 1500-mile road trip (including one 500-mile day with 3 charger stops).

The issues with the older car were rear door handles that didn't work (they would not present from the outside), and the central display getting glitchy. "Rebooting" the car fixed the display, and the owner said that it needed rebooting about once a week. The door-handle issue never went away, and it wasn't clear if it was software or a mechanical issue. Software is more likely because both were not working in the same way (doors could be open from the inside).

Those problems aside, we had 4 adults and one teenager in the car for hours on end, also carrying 5 suitcases and 5 small backpacks, along with bags of food, etc--the frunk is really big. That is easily 1000 lbs of payload. We drove freeways and small paved roads for miles, and the weather was cold, from 50 to 5 Fahrenheit (10 to -15 C). We didn't have any stuck windows, and other than some range impact[1], the cold was not a factor. So we were really happy with the car, the drivetrain and road handling were rock solid in all cases.

I know Teslas can have mechanical problems, and they can go into the shop for days/weeks (just like BMWs I hear), but having a reliable electric drive-train to drive my family through the winter weather was somehow reassuring.

Edited to add: people are saying Teslas only have the price of a luxury car, but they have one other critical thing: the power. In our fully loaded rental S, I had no problem getting up hills or "dealing" with traffic (heh), including huge trucks on small roads.

[1] Note that cold reduces range in 2 separate ways: it affects the battery chemistry so there is less charge available (about 10% less), and it requires some of the available energy to heat the cabin (no waste heat from an inefficient ICE). Seat heaters make you warmer with less energy than heating the air, but the model we had didn't have back-seat heaters, so we used the cabin heat (probably created by a heat pump).
> Men generally have the biological need to go do and wander and discover things. I don't know whether it's hormones or what. Debate all you like elsewhere (I'm not trying to debate that point here).

What an obnoxious thing to do. You know you're stating a controversial opinion, or you wouldn't have said that. You don't get to set the rules of conversation like that.
In case you didn’t know, the Vatican Library has been digitized and is online
Develop and hold sacred the idea that organizations like the CIA, DIA, NSA, and the military (et. al) do not operate within national borders. i.e. when your military becomes police, your people become the enemy.

It is a legitimately a difficult problem, perhaps among the most difficult problems in governing. How do you create and maintain a government for centuries which keeps its primary goal of serving the people. The US founders thought about this very much drawing on philosophers modern and ancient and they did a pretty good job setting up checks and balances, or more bluntly, competition.

How do you keep the CIA and its like in check? Create opposing government entities specifically immune to its actions and allow them to compete for prestige. This is why we have three branches of government, two houses of congress with different election strategies, etc. Set up separation of powers, imbue the population to value and cherish that separation, and honestly, hope for the best.
This thread, by Joshua Benton at the Harvard Nieman Lab, eviscerates Lessig's claims.

https://twitter.com/jbenton/status/1216772015383707658
There's a project for keeping Python 2 alive: https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon

It's particularly uncool that Guido brought up the prospect of lawyers (https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon/issues/47#issuecomm...) to force it not to be called Python and opposed to letting people who care about keeping Python 2 alive evolve it as "Python 2". (I know he has the legal right to insist on the name change. Still uncool.)
What does this have to do with men?
Strip mine the land for more minerals for more never-decomposing plastic devices with chemical batteries?

I'd rather have the dead trees, thanks.
I think that's the wrong takeaway, especially since it kind of absolves Python of doing anything wrong. There were many examples of ways that this was unduly hard just because of how poorly the transition was designed for.

> While hindsight is 20/20, many of the issues with Python 3 were obvious at the time and could have been mitigated had the language maintainers been more accommodating - and dare I say empathetic - to its users.
>> What are the risks?

Experience teaches that anytime we can't see the risks of a technological solution, it's not because there aren't any. But because we can't see them.
I've wanted this literally for two decades. Thank you to the creators for finally making it.
This is mostly what Blurb (https://www.blurb.com) does!
I agree. I would actively avoid shopping at any place that did this. But I already know that "cashierless" stores aren't my cup of tea in the first place. Since I'm not the target market for this kind of stuff, my opinion is meaningless.
> China...alone are responsible for the largest transfer of wealth the world has ever seen (Trillions $$ in IP theft from western tax payers).

In terms of % of global GDP is it in fact greater than the transfer to the US of European technologies in the 18th and in particular 19th centuries (a famous IP theft being, for example, the spinning mill)? Or smuggled transplantation of crops between rival European empires (e.g. rubber from Brazil to to Malaya).

Not trying to defend or accuse anyone here; simply curious about the term "largest".
> the fact that the government benefits the article cited allows the men to stay at home playing video games all day

Is that actually the case?

The article takes issue with the narrative that supply and demand are involved ... but I don't think this article proves this idea that folks are enjoying government benefits and that results in them not working. The article certainly mentions it, but is pretty short on evidence.

Plenty of US states have been cutting benefits, and they're not seeing people go back to work.
| one would need to download everything

Just download it then. We got mp3 albums off Napster on modems back in the day, surely getting that torrent is easier and faster today.
It provides some missing context.
Something to highlight in this article is the prevalence of pain medication use among the out-of-work population:

"Apart from the small fraction (around 13% in 2015) of prime-age male non-workers who are adult students, the remainder report spending many of their waking hours watching and playing on screens — over 2,000 hours per year on average. Almost half of these non-working men report taking pain medication on any given day (which should raise a red flag for those worried about the opioid crisis)"

The watching and playing on screens isn't ideal (2000h/y == 40h/wk on average -- which doesn't seem to leave a ton of room for a base level of healthy exercise and socialization) - but at least it is relatively harmless.

But that half of these folks would take pain medication on a daily basis seems staggering.

The author seems to correlate this abuse with the availability of opioids via Medical and Medicare. That does seem like a problem. However, reading further into the blog of the quoted author[0], that writer (who visited many affected areas during their research) attributes it to the private sector pushing opioids heavily.

Personally it seems fairer to attribute most of the cause to the private industry which made the painkillers popular and mainstream, as opposed to Medicare and Medicaid, which functioning as desired should be making all healthcare more accessible (with the unfortunate inclusion of opioids as a dangerous subset of that).

[0] - http://samquinones.com/reporters-blog/2016/11/21/donald-trum...
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on the other side, i use my name as magic number (4 chars)

so both hex and dec representations got me (close numbers)

many protocols and simple ciphers use similar methods btw.
In my city almost all of them were replaced by big self-service touchscreen displays with credit card reader attached. It's usually 4-6 machines and one assistant on call from kitchen area / takeout area when someone wants to pay with cash. They also help clients use touchscreen display to make orders when someone don't understand how to work with them.

So my guess for lack of adoption can be explained by:

- inertia and lack of incentives (who said recession?),

- people with cash,

- people who aren't good with technologies,

- people who have no one to talk to (they don't know what they want to eat today and want your advice).
You've got an important point here, but can you please not post it in the snarky flamewar style? It's against the site rules and degrades discussion. If you'd review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take their spirit more to heart, we'd be grateful. Note this one:

"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

If you post that way, you'll evoke better from others, instead of worse.
Talking from the perspective of an EU country, the salary deductions on employment contract for a single person are brutal and exceeding 40% of the gross salary, while public institutions treat young single native male as their worst enemy. Enormous successes simply don't happen over here, no point engaging in a startup and risking the mental health. The dating market is... well enough was said already by now. Once achieving housing and certain financial comfort, why should one bother with employment?
I experienced similar frustration recently. I couldn't even generate debug symbols, as doing so will freeze computer (I was compiling llvm into wasm). I had to rely on logs.
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Fuel prices in the USA are quite low. There isn’t much demand for a plugin hybrid. People looking for “green” cred and branding may go straight to an electric car, while everyone else buys SUVs and light trucks.
I'm glad you've found a solution, then. For me I can get to the same headspace by deliberately writing chattily and typing out stuff like "so, like, then maybe we wanna..."
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> The idea that automating these jobs is a good thing demonstrates how out of touch you are.

That's such a ridiculous statement for someone on HN. If we were to believe such a thing, why would you want to advance at all, if not for removing/reducing the work load imposed on people, or, equivalently, improving productivity per working hour?

EDIT: An article in the NYT regarding this topic came to my mind - about automation/robots etc. in Sweden. Can highly recommend it: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/27/business/the-robots-are-c...
Especially without any attempt at citation.

"I'm going to say a deliberately inflammatory thing and also it's not up for discussion. But it's also the foundation upon which my argument is built. No critiquing that though, because then my argument might not be sound."
This exists, albeit only for YouTube rather than Netflix: CaptionPop https://www.captionpop.com/
You may have a bike now, but there will be times when you or others visiting may need to use cars there. If you have a delivery made, yes they will back out of your driveway. If people visit you in a car or taxi (do you think they will all walk from the train station, including your 65 year old grandmother?) you need it.

You get sick and need a taxi to the doctors office? Need it. Tumble off the bike and break or sprain something, and you rent a car while you recover? Need it.

Do you plan on selling the house, and the buyer is a tradesman who need a truck to do landscaping or carry his tools?

You're not going to cycle always and forever. A lot of people here one day are going to get old enough where cycling is a chore, even with a ebike. At that point the hedge becomes an expensive nuisance.
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Can you link to a single file WikiLeaks redacted something because of the harms of publishing it.
It is the next step leading up to deleting it.

There are very good reasons to delete unmaintained or hard-to-maintain code that nothing important depends on, or should depend on. But just deleting it creates hardships, so things happen in stages.
Can you list any of the companies you invested in? I'm very skeptical that start-ups are just sitting around that have this potential would allow any random angel person to invest.

Moreover, the probability of find a $10B+ exit happens only about 5 times per decade (10 years), so the chance that you got into one is very unlikely.
The biggest problem with the Python 2 to Python 3 transition was not that breaking changes were made. It’s that breaking changes were made in a way such that you could not easily have code that worked both on Python 2 and Python 3.

It took years before the advent of six, Python 3 u’’ literals, and modernize. The author discusses this at length.
Business domain vs. Math., that's an interesting comparison. The problem is that business domain is exact an "infinite domain", in comparing with Math. Or to say that the competitive nature of business is very much reliant on its ability to break its domain boundary. Again, not so much in the case of Math.
Ask HN: Is Software Development as an engineering discipline unique?
I read an Introduction to Formal Methods powerpoint presentation that stated - based on a survey of 400 companies regarding all IT projects in the last 10 years over a budget of £1M - 20% of IT projects are abandoned, 60% are over budget, 90% are late, and 98% have features removed in order to finish the project.

My friends and I reguarly discuss this stuff and we have different views. I think that if we're going to class software development as an engineering discipline these statistics are terrifying and we as an industry are doing something wrong. My friends say software development is unique to all other fields of engineering because it is more complex than a bridge which is 'large but simple' and two software projects differ more than say two new cars might differ.

I'd love to know what you think?
Isn't it also unfaithfulness to capitalism to protect an industry in such a way? I would have assumed that if someone believes in the mechanics of capitalism would have let it be.
245 children killed in totally avoidable accidents is still 245 too many.

If 245 kids were killed in a plane crash or building explosion there would be media outrage. Yet we are so numb to constant deaths on roads that we just accept it as ordinary.
More importantly, the most brilliant minds (and there are still a LOT of them) are working for large companies on unimportant problems instead of doing research. Academia has lost all of its prestige, and companies pay ridiculously more.
> this is research being stolen

Well, I guess copied would be a better word, as the people who "had the research" still has it.

> quickly finished off in China and published before the researchers in the US do

Sounds like they are doing a better job than US researchers then? Unless of course, they do a sloppy job finishing it, but then US researchers can just take their time, do it properly and people would use their research instead. Free market of research basically, just have to make sure your research is actually better.
How would you define "artificially inflated"? I.e., inflated against what? Overpaid compared to...average worker pay, GDP, stock market gains...?
Moving the goalpost much? Clever but not constructive at all.

Producing crop for food supplies is not the same thing as producing crop for transmission of blob of text. The former is critical for human survival whereas the latter is totally undesirable. Especially now that we have a well permeated web to distribute books on, we don't need anyone to sow or reap the trees anymore. Period.
Self-checkout cash registers. Amazon. AI. When public assistance is more profitable than entry level jobs (and the maintenance of those jobs, gas, etc).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dZ_lvDgevk&t=11s
A corporate sponsored city is a city of the future? I actually think it is, sadly.