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You know whats' worse for America than Wikileaks? Americas war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Wikileaks IS a journalistic organization, and nothing you can say will change that. Again, just because you don't like their position, doesn't reduce their effectiveness at journalistic endeavours - and they were very, very effective at getting people to pay attention to, and discuss, the heinous conditions of US intelligence agencies and the dire corruption therein which permits further crimes against humanity being committed in the name of the American people.

It is GOOD FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE to have had the Wikileaks - and Snowden leaks - saga occur. This was not 'good for Russia' - but it was bad for 'American warmongers who were, literally, getting away with murder'.

The narrative that Wikileaks was 'against America but pro- Russia' is not only specious, but a clear indicator of duding the real nature of the leaks: America's out of control military industrial pharmaceutical complex.

The fact that we're not discussing the contents of the leaks, but rather the nature by which they were exposed to the world, is a classic intelligence-stooge distraction technique.

Stay focused. Have you read the Wikileaks? If you're an American citizen, they are of immense value to you, with regards to knowing the key agents in your society which actually prevent your democracy from functioning.

If it weren't for Wikileaks, we wouldn't have learned of the DNC's dire corruption, for example. This was a very, very positive action for the American people - who have been being duped by their "two party 'system'" for decades, such that they truly believe its a democracy they're involved in.

As we have learned from Wikileaks, nothing could be further from the truth. American citizens should be very grateful for having had these criminals secrets' revealed, and they should be highly alarmed at anyone who says this "hurt America" without giving actual, real evidence.

Because so far, Wikileaks has been positive for America.
> but as a "non-Latin" language user, defaulting str to unicode literals is the best change in Python 3

I'm also a "non-latin" user and I will keep repeating this point ad nauseam: there would have been many strictly superious solutions to solving this problem and most of them would have been closer to what we had in Python 2 than 3.

Both rust and go decided to go with Unicode support that is largely based around utf-8 with free transmutations to bytes and almost free conversions from bytes. This could have been Python 3 but that path was dismissed without a lot of evidence.

A Unicode model that was a bad idea in 2005 was picked and we now have it in 2020 where it's a lot worse because thanks to emojis we now are well outside the basic plane.
There are ways to make sure that payments are to be made when possible and having insights into revenu streams as a third party.

There are pros and cons, like it was listed on the website. It is not for everyone, but some people might need just that approach.

Thanks for honest feedback!
> I don't think most people care too much about that

I feel like a LOT of people care strongly about this. Almost all of our national dialogue about immigrants, taxpayer-funded healthcare, etc, is centered around how unfair it is for Other People to get Free Stuff.

The idea that we could _build housing and give it to homeless people_, or just pay for everyone's basic healthcare needs (even if you could still get better by paying more), raises the ire of a significant portion of the population here. Our country is in love with the idea that if you fail, it was because you made mistakes, and _deserve to be punished_ for them. (Never mind that often times, people go bankrupt because of unplanned medical issues, etc.)
The deepest hole we have ever dug (bbc.com) = Doctor Who, season 12.

(j/k)
In science as in pretty much any other discipline you should always weigh someones opinion by their believability / credibility. The credibility of someones opinion on something is a function of their knowledge / experience of the subject and things related to it. To first approximation most sceptics have close to zero credibility making claims about string theory, as they have not produced scientific output remotely comparable to proponents of string theory. This is simply because people like Witten tower far above most other working theoretical physicists.
You are missing the main point.

- the startups need money, and for some reason, I can provide it before anyone else.
But why use Fish for scripting? Why not just use Python3 and be done?
As mentioned elsewhere, Airbnb also publishes a magazine: https://www.airbnb.com/magazine
This is extremely reactionary to the point you must be trolling.

"Destroying the planet"? Come on. It's a hole in the ground. We make a hole ten times bigger than this every time we build a building.
"Power over users" is perhaps the oldest economically-rational activity.
I don't think the two causes listed in the article are actually the causes. I think both are yet another symptom of an underlying problem. I would argue that men doing worse in schooling is likely another symptom of the same issue.

I think that the heart of the issue is that more men nowadays feel that they just don't matter. Not to society nor to anyone else. This leads to a situation where they will simply sacrifice less and try to enjoy more.

So why would men feel that way?

My initial thoughts were that perhaps it is due to the recent demonization of men and the removal of some of their privileges, while the burdens (selective service, unfair family court) remained. While I think that these could be contributing (accelerating) factors, I don't think this is at the heart of the matter. We see similar trends in other countries, where lots of (young) men are essentially checking out from society. Japan is an example of a country where this problem has likely progressed further than in the US. My initial thoughts don't fit, because they couldn't explain why this same process would happen in countries with a pretty different culture from the US.

I'm stumped. Perhaps it's somehow linked to the falling testosterone levels in men that we have observed?
Well there are a lot more types of successful company than there are companies that are successful investments from outsiders. A high school friend of mine has a successful house painting business that does millions of dollars per year but he grew it the old fashioned way by bootstrapping and I don’t think it would have ever been a viable investment candidate.
Both yes and no. If you replace "RAM" in your statement with "cache," then you get a more accurate summary for the situation that gives rise to the issues we're talking about.

But it's also the case that caches avoid writing back into main memory as much as possible, since bandwidth to main memory is quite small. However, cache coherency protocols are used to make all the caches agree on the value, so that committing the value to cache is equivalent to committing it to main memory.
Online speech recognition for English.

The framework should be generalizable, but the models they are making available are only for English. Actually adapting this for any other language would be a huge amount of additional work.
> if all strings in Mercurial are byte strings, then what is there to think about? just use b'' throughout, no need to worry about anything else.

The author explains later in the article that many system level python 3 apis that are important to a vcs require unicode and won't accept bytes. So apparently it wasn't as easy as just sticking 'b' in front of every literal.
> Second, Sweden asked that Assange be held and/or extradited for questioning or interrogation. It is not clear why an uncharged person (even if not a journalist) should be arrested without even being officially officially charged. I am not well-versed in UK law (especially UK constitutional law, as they don't have a constitution) - but I doubt that's valid.

People who are very well versed in UK law heard these arguments from Assange's excellent lawyers and decided otherwise.

[Actually it's quite normal to be arrested on suspicion of something before being charged in the UK, so their arguments were more focused on equivalence for international warrants and extradition purposes...]

> Third, suppose Sweden did have a legal right to require a questioning/investigation. Assange offered, throughout his time at the embassy, to undergo this at the Ecuadorian Embassy. The Swedish authorities did not accept this offer. Remember, by Swedish law Assange was never considered more than a suspect, and assumed to be innocent; meaning there needed to be a good reason to refuse such an arrangement.

I'd have said the fact that the Swedish prosecutor requested the interview whilst he was in Sweden in order to formally charge him and arrest him, and he responded by leaving the country and insisting on only holding the interview in an environment where the second part wasn't possible seemed like a pretty good reason tbh. Similarly, if you are a fugitive charges from the US, the police are unlikely to accept your gracious offer of allowing them to do the reading Miranda rights bit by telephone video link or on foreign territory without an extradition treaty, which says absolutely nothing about the strength of the case.

> Fourth, the person whose claims opened the investigation against Assange withdrew (most? all?) of those claims; and Swedish authorities eventually closed the case.

The Swedish authorities closed the case and [publicly] reopened it after at the request of the lawyer acting for the women, which is nearly as unhelpful to the argument that Swedish prosecutors were desperate to pin things on Assange for foreign policy reasons as it is to the argument that the women aren't interested. Every time the case gets closed by Swedish prosecutors there's a statement from the women's lawyer that she's working on getting it reopened, and they're on at least their second by now...

Obviously because it involves Assange, the majority of articles covering the case have some sort of slant and assumption about Assange's motivations one way or another, but one of the few things that isn't seriously in dispute is that Swedish prosecutors had already interviewed Assange and the difference between this interview and the ones he turned up as requested for in Sweden was that this one was intended to end with him being detained awaiting trial. That's why Assange turned up multiple times in person to speak with both Swedish and UK law enforcement when they didn't have a valid basis to detain him for any period of time, but didn't attend this particular interview in Sweden and wouldn't go back there to do so.
You keep flagging it after it gets 5-10 votes and makes it to the front pages, and then it gets buried.

I thought it was allowed to re-post something a few times if it doesn't get attention. No intention to spam.

(And half of the links you posted are not to same content.)
> “ Fixing" this problem by curtailing the benefits...

Another way to address a partial fix is to decriminalize getting a job after previously being on disability. Currently that is used as evidence that there was no previous disability and can lead to prosecution for fraud and attempts to claw back those previous benefits.
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> Having worked in python for about a decade, first in python2 and lately in python3, and having seen projects convert, I find this article baffling. I found Six to work pretty well, and where it didn't it wasn't hard to change.

It matters a lot where you work. If you are in high level land Python 3 is not much of a chance. If you work at the boundary (wire protocols, OS interop, text transformation) then Python 3 is a significant step back, especially before 3.6. A lot of the mud that Mercurial stepped through is also where I went through with my libraries. The day I managed to get the PEP through that reintroduced the u prefix on strings was also the last time I voluntarily participated in a language summit. The atmosphere was awful and not evidence based.
agreed. sometimes I'm trying to select a date in comparison with other dates and other info (what else is already happening on that date, etc). Sometimes I'm trying to see a range of possible dates, sometimes I'm flexible, sometimes I'm not.

The idea of various use cases don't seem to get enough play in UI component design, imo (or maybe I'm just not reading the right bits?). I'd like there to be some "this component is designed for these use cases - A & B. if you desire use case C, look at component X." and so on.
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I love hearing these stories of projects and complex problems. As well, these days I've found myself rarely enjoying programming. Seeing what others are immersed in might help me get back track :)
> It's about removing FPU access in what appears to be a swipe by Kroah-Hartman against ZFS (maybe it was coincidental - we'll never know).

It wasn't Greg Kroah-Hartman: https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/12209993e98c5fa1855c467f22...

That commit has the real reason: "With EFI gone as the last user of __kernel_fpu_{begin|end}(), both can be made static and not exported anymore." So yes, it was fully coincidental.
I've been involved in multiple non-trivial libraries and frameworks that supported both python2 and python3 for many years with the same codebase ... and it really wasn't anything like this. The python3 "adaptation" effort for mercurial was just bungled by multiple terrible decisions.

First was the idea that normal feature contributors should not see any b"" or any sign of python3 support for the first couple years of the effort. Huge mistake. You need some b"".

But you don't need all b"" everywhere. That was the second huge mistake. Don't just convert every natural string in the whole codebase to b"". The natural string type is the right type in many places, both for python2 (bytes-like) and python3 (unicode-like). The helpers for converting kwargs keys to/from bytes is a sign that you are way off track. This guy got really hung up on the fact that the python2 natural string type is bytes-like, and tryied to force explicit bytes everywhere (dict keys, http headers, etc) and was really tilting at windmills for most of these past 5 years.

Yes, you pretty much had to wait for python-3.4 to be released and for python-2.6 to be mostly retired in favor of python-2.7. Then, starting in early 2014, it was pretty straightforward to make a clean codebase compatible with python-2.7 and python-3.4+, and I saw it done for Tornado, paramiko, and a few other smaller projects.
You're not crazy, this article is lazily written. It reads like political propaganda.
I think the actual pain in Python 2 came from the misguided decision not to adopt UTF-8 as the default character encoding, combined with silent coercion between unicode/bytes whenever needed. Those two features in combination made Python brittle and dangerous when handling non-ascii characters, not the "strings are bytes" default.

Making strings Unicode by default is wonderful compared to the alternatives (and OP's assertion that this amounts to "assuming the world is Unicode" is disingenuous: there's nothing stopping programs from handling bytes correctly - Python 3 merely resolved the ambiguity).
The reported BMJ study does not recommend teetotalers take up drinking; it only suggests moderation for individuals who already consume alcohol.

"We observed a relatively small difference in life expectancies across different levels of alcohol consumption compared with other individual lifestyle factors. The cardiovascular benefits of moderate alcohol consumption have been consistently observed in large cohort studies, but alcohol consumption and risk of cancer showed a dose-response relation. Thus, current guidelines do not encourage a non-alcohol drinker to start drinking just for the benefit of preventing cardiovascular disease."
ehh this is all relatively new.

10 years ago kids were not making $300k out of school

and this bull market is unprecedented

everyone looks like a genius when everything is up.

but yes enjoy it while it lasts, totally agree.
If you buy a new car these days you'll spend quite a bit of time figuring out the controls for the stereo, heat, interior lights,etc. Had someone standardized that we wouldn't have to spend time figuring out every car maker's new interior. Sounds great, right?
It seems you speak as if you understand the underlying causes, and that really bothers me, because I see no explanation why you would, nothing to back up your assumptions, and nothing to demonstrate your causations. You don't even have anything to demonstrate correlation. So it's a very weak argument you are making.

And, I'm okay playing hypothetical, but theorizing should be clear. You're theorizing and your theory is most likely wrong, and only minimally likely to be true. Due to the fact that for any issue, there are more theories that are wrong than right, those are the starting odds of theorization.

And now more directly addressing your partocular theory, why do you believe people would rather choose video games over a vocational activity given exposure, access, and training to both?
PyPy is keeping Python 2 support indefinitely, I believe.
What is the problem being solved?

Intellectual property concerns seem to be the issue at hand which definitely does not grok.

If the NIH is giving out money for research, the results of that research should be public, un-patented, free, to benefit the whole species, not Florida, not the US.

If there are concerns about training people with funds in the US who plan to leave, I get it. If there are concerns about sabotage, I get it. Otherwise, wtf?

There are many arguments, but no thesis. "China bad" isn't good enough.
Sure, abstractly. But to continue the analogy - there is presently a glut of violin players and other musicians, and everyone currently making up the orchestras have no time to do anything else.

And yeah, the "best" orchestra is going to face an insatiable demand for their specific time, and likely enjoys performing as much as humanly possible. But these conditions are exceptional, rather than the situation faced by basically everybody else.
Also updates can be uninstalled (since they are on the user partition).
Presumably the person you're replying to is a user too, so apparently the end result isn't the same for all of the people you're thinking of.
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This. All professions have relative economic value. The free market - a market without permanent subsidies, monopolies and correct application of import tax (to balance non-free foreign subsidies) is the best and most fair judge of this.

Not some social welfare activist or even some elected representative of the party in power.
at 3 bucks this won't hurt: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B083D667N2/ref=as_li_tl?ie...
If you're building a fuselage or wing, you need big infrastructure anyway. Boeing's composite wing factory is 1.2 million square feet.
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Linear algebra (with diagonalization not just using gauss-jordan) could be pushed back to highschool for motivated students, and is in some countries. The coordinate system aspect of special relativity (the origin of time dilation and most of its "weird effects") only requires algebra. General relativity requires the full mechanisms of differential geometry but advances in things like differential forms are pushing this back to the undergraduate level. Overall I would say that it could be done but you would have to leave the unmotivated students behind.
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Most global bandwidth is from video streaming, so most of the data isn't in the first couple packets.

So the number would probably be surprisingly large but also a very small fraction of overall traffic.
Do unscalable things, but then scale it
> You become vulnerable for all sorts of MITM attacks. The attacker now also has access to your LAN, which is usually trusted by all devices on it.

Good points; these two issues are quite different.

You could stop the network-access problem by putting an extra router (a secure one) between the modem and your local network, but that wouldn't save you from MITM.
I'm actually (pleasantly) surprised that someone like Google (or a league of someones like Google) who have deep pockets and so much Python 2 that it's cheaper to maintain Python 2 than it is to port to Python 3. Perhaps they (correctly) were concerned about the ecosystem moving on toward Python 3, leaving them behind?
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The real-time factor for a single audio stream looks like 0.1 (based on eyeballing the graph), so it should be possible to achieve acceptable speeds even with a slower CPU (maybe not a Pi). The memory requirements for the intermediate results are likely to be substantial, though. They say they have "carefully optimized memory use", but don't give any figures.
If you've never driven a BMW, you may get stuck, as the reverse is in an unexpected place and you have to lift the lever to get there, also unexpected. (As far as I remember)
How does this compare to Mozilla's DeepSpeech?

And does anyone know when Mozilla will release the updated Common Voice dataset from https://voice.mozilla.org ?
Yeah, you basically reverse-engineered something there. Good job!

For the average programmer, it might not seem too much. But for a normal user, seeing something and figure out how it's working, without knowing internals beforehand, can be said to be reverse-engineering.

I guess we should start rating reverse-engineering so people can know what to expect.
Sun used the Java trademark against Microsoft. The case was settled out of court.
We can make anything leave the solar system, with an escape velocity and the proper orientation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_artificial_objects_lea...
I am not trolling.

this is the same forum where people minimize their consumer garbage output to one bag a year and reduce aviation usage to reduce carbon footprint. I find it EXTREMELY condescending that you ridicule my opinion. Whats the scope for scales of environmental impact that matters?

Every single construction project in an area where an endangered species lives, the USAF must conduct an environmental impact study for said species from the project, even if its a toilet.

I am very much extremely reactionary, this is a news forum. People post news and react to it.
Let's grant the point that there may be some phenomena in the universe the human mind is not equipped to understand (which is a nuanced position but we can ignore those nuances for now):

Why should we assume that the contradictions in contemporary theories are of this special, inexplicable type? Every era has contradictions, before they are resolved... But they'll only ever be resolved if people are trying to resolve them, meaning that they haven't resigned themselves to the idea that our minds haven't been gifted with the capacity to make sense of our experience.
So what need to be changed in properties of Nature to switch EM with Right Hand Rule into EM with Left Hand Rule? Can you explain this using a formula?

Where we can expect to see EM with LHR? Can we see it in our Laniakea? Or at opposite side of Shapley Attractor - Dipole Repeller? Or at perpendicular one? Do we have void between RHR and LHR? Can we cross it?

What is nature of EM? Is it because of nonlinear trajectory of motion of our galaxy from Dipole Repeller to Shapley Attractor? Or it because of non-linear motion of our galaxy within Laniakea? Or something else?