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> They aren't stopping people from using Python 2, the language or Python 2, the software.

The effort to claim the binary name python for Python 3 is actively hostile to Python 3 and a thing that runs unmodified Python 2 unmodified on the same operating system installation. (It's unclear to me how much this is a PSF push, but at least the PEP isn't telling distros to refrain from this hostile-to-comaptibility action.)

> No implementation not maintained by PSF is allowed to be called unqualified Python

The best situation would be PSF hosting continued Python 2-compatible development by people who want to do the work.
> You should try to limit yourself to opportunities that could be $10 billion companies if they work (which means they have, at least, a fast-growing market and some sort of pricing power). The power law is that powerful. This is easy to say and hard to do, and I’ve been guilty of violating the principle many times. But the data are clear—the failures don’t matter much, the small successes don’t matter much, and the giant returns are where everything happens.

This is the main reason why most people should avoid VC money. As a founder/employee all of your eggs are in one basket and the chance of having a billion dollar exit is practically 0. VCs get to raise billion dollar rounds, live off of the 2-3% management fees and go around spraying and praying with the hope of hitting a unicorn. If that doesn't work they take their top donkeys and try to pump and dump them, marking up their investments in the process in order to raise another round.
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Interesting take, I suppose. It's pretty dismissive of people who don't agree with your beliefs as 'whiners' rather than trying to engage in some sort of discussion with you.

I agree that sometimes it's useful to pose arguments and skip the citations, but that usually relies on both parties agreeing that the axioms are at least plausible. I'm willing to entertain discussion on things I don't necessary agree with or don't have data for if I think there's a chance they are true.

I suppose if you are trying to be more evangelical about your ideas rather than inviting discourse on them, then by all means, continue. I just see so many people these days who are closed off to new perspectives who also insist they are having 'rational' discourse about a topic.
Obligatory "IN MICE", but interesting study nonetheless.
Such an awesome problem to have, but still a problem. Good on you for recognizing too that it would be too much to try and do both yourself. Sometimes our egos get in the way of the best decisions and you seem to have solved that problem already.

I hired a CEO a while back to run a company that I acquired through some less then conventional means, but wound up with 100% ownership in. I was and still am a CTO at another company that is quite separate but I always am on the lookout for deals which is how this deal fell into my lap. Anyway, I didn't have any contacts in the main industry the company operated in, but obviously could understand the model and technology (or I would've skip it). So I reached out to suppliers and businesses that were in the same vertical but not competitors and started asking lots of questions. Bought quite a few lunches/dinners/drinks to learn all that I could and to ask them point blank if they knew of anyone that might be a fit for what I needed. This took me a little while, but I generally refuse to use recruiters, so to me it was the best way to come up with someone I felt had the right skill mix and that I could cut a deal with that involved more than just a salary. Once I heard a few names pretty consistently then I approached them and met with them all, eventually cutting a deal with one to lead the company while I kept my day job.

My 2 cents. This has worked out great for me, but partially because I am good at leaving him to do his job and I don't interfere or get in his way. He gives me regular reports, and calls me for large decisions or things he feels I need to be in the loop on, since it is still my money and company in the end. However, I'd say 85-90% of the time I always go with his recommendation, after all I hired him as the expert. It hasn't always been the right call of course, but neither have my decisions in my career either, so who cares, fix it and move on. I only bring this up because if you choose this route over selling you have to manage things forward and not interfere with the business, you essentially are a board chairman. That doesn't mean you don't have input etc, just that you have to be careful how you approach it so you don't destroy the employee trust in their leadership. Just like founders who constantly bounce in and out of areas thinking they are making things better instead of using the leadership they hire to get what they need done, it destroys company's long term and limits the growth of the company.
I meant that American society in general is not getting better. The healthcare sucks. The education sucks. The debt sucks. The infrastructure sucks. The access to affordable housing sucks. The Public Transport sucks.

All of those things are true because people gave up trying when it got hard to fix/improve them.
Been trying https://www.matillion.com. It’s nice.
Satisfaction guaranteed. Don't like the service? Move along, you're out very little/nothing.
That's not how research works. The first paper published is the important one; all others are derivative, and must prove novelty or improvement anew. And even if you do, you must cite the first paper published, and that's the one with the prestige associated with the citation count, not yours, which might even be overlooked. Simply being "more robust" is unlikely to be sufficiently novel for acceptance into a journal or conference.
Or, that there is a minimum scale/experience gradient behind which you are better served by a decent managed Kubernetes, when you're not prepared to manage it yourself. Most cloud providers have done a fairly good job to make it affordable.

I think it's fair to say that the landscape of Kubernetes proper itself (the open source package) has already reached a more evolved state than the landscape of managed Kubernetes service providers, and that's potentially problematic, especially for newcomers. It's hard enough to pick between the myriad choices available; harder still when you must justify your choice to a hostile collaborator who doesn't agree with part or all.

IMO, the people who complain the loudest about the learning curve of Kubernetes are those who have spent a decade or more learning how to administer one or more distributions of Linux servers, who have made the transition from SysV init to SystemD, and in many cases who are now neck deep in highly specialized AWS services, which in many cases they have used successfully to extricate from the nightmare-scape where one team called "System Admins" is responsible for broadly everything that runs or can run on any Linux server (or otherwise), from databases, to vendor applications, to monitoring systems, new service dev, platforming apps that were developed in-house, you name it...

I basically don't agree that there is a minimum scale for Kubernetes, and I'll assert confidently that declarative system state management is a good technology, that is here to stay. But I respect your choice and I understand that not everyone shares my unique experiences, that led me to be more comfortable using Kubernetes for everything from personal hobby projects, to my own underground skunkworks at work.

In fact it's a broadly interesting area of study for me, "how do devs/admins/(people at large) get into k8s" since it is such a steep learning curve, and this has all happened so fast, there is so much to unpack before one can start to feel comfortable that there isn't really that much more complexity buried behind that you haven't deeply explored already and understood.
How about "it's a thing that does not have an analog at the macro scale in which humans exist, therefore any explanation that does not use terminology from our daily lives will be unsatisfactory"
"https://publicity-stunt.tuple.app/" I just love how candid they are.
Isn't it even the case that google forces other OEMs to bundle all their apps if they want to include the play store?
> just distilling people's lives and communities down to a dollar value

What's wrong with that? Our resources are finite. Our attention is short. We have to prioritize society's investment. How can anyone decide on the relative priority of two things without casting them to some common unit? It's only when we describe people's lives in terms of dollars that we can make intelligent decisions about where to apply society's scarce resources.
From the picture it looks like the hole is maybe 30 feet across so the environmental impact is non existent
We can keep math, but switch to better theories, with plausible explanations.

A kind of Pilot Wave can explain quantum weirdness to layman people with ease.

We can ditch theory relativity and calculate speeds relatively to CMB, which is much easier to understand.

We can ditch Big Bang theory and, instead, accept that light is not immortal, because it ages with time. IMHO, Dipole Repeller and Shapley Attractor are much more attractive and easier to explain than Big Bang.
> Python 2 had different types but you could be sloppy and it would kinda work out.

It would "kinda work out", if your Unicode strings were ASCII in practice, and only then. Because whenever a Unicode and a non-Unicode string had to be combined, it used ASCII as the default encoding to converge them.

Which is to say, it only worked out for English input, and even then only until the point where you hit a foreign name, or something like "naïve". Then you'd suddenly get an exception - and it happened not at the point where the offending input was generated, but at the point where two strings happened to be combined.

This was a horrible state of affairs for basically everybody except the English speakers, because there was a lot of Python code out there that was written against and tested solely on inputs that wouldn't break it like that.

Intermixing binary data with text can be represented just fine in a type system where the two are different. For your HTTP example, the obvious answer is that the values that are fundamentally binary, like the method name or the headers, should be bytes, while the parts that have a known encoding should be str - there's nothing there that requires actually mixing them in a single value. In those very rare cases where you genuinely do have something like Unicode followed by binary followed by Unicode in a single value, that is trivially represented by a (str, bytes, str) tuple.

The problem with the Python stdlib isn't that bytes and Unicode are distinct. It's that it's overly strict about only accepting Unicode in some places where bytes should be legal, too. This is orthogonal to them being separate types.
I created a container image of Discourse using nginx with the cloudflare patch to enable HTTP/3[1] and for some reason the same config that works fine in HTTP/2 loses the content-type header on Google Chrome. It works just fine in Firefox...

1. https://github.com/cloudflare/quiche/tree/master/extras/ngin...
What startup hires a freelancer and gives him stock for a one time project? For startups they'd need to give out portion of stock, and for a freelancer, they moght not be getting that much at all. Venturly model would assume that freelancer took a serious risk and would yield higher returns overall.
300k is too much; 16k can cover half of your roof with panels, even in the SF Bay Area.
This is a cheaper version, that I have experienced:

http://www.flyipilot.com/

”iPILOT is currently available in London, Munich, Berlin, Dresden, Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Prague, Doha, Dubai, Basel, Zurich”
Now THAT is the first reasonable argument I've heard against copyright for such things. Once it becomes easy, trivial, and for most purposes "free" to hit button and make a best-selling novel, a temporary monopoly on that work wouldn't seem to benefit the goal of incentivising future work. Of course, the person/people that built the system may still need some type of temporary monopoly to incentivize refinements, increased quality, genre variation, etc., maybe even the ability to tailor made a novel to a specific individual's tastes for them alone... but I'm not sure "copyright" would then be the best tool for this. I think there would need to be something new and, given that I think copyright terms are already extremely too long, much shorter than traditional copyright.

Thanks for such an insightful idea! I'm not 100% sure which side I come down on, but it's very thought provoking, the sort of discussion that draws me in to HN.
Having a conflict of interest is a concern in many jobs. It's even more of a concern when that conflict is not disclosed, and the conflict is with a program that has a known history of incentivizing illegal behaviors.
Yes, I feel the same. It's a large part of why I've given up on SO.
Sure, but really, cats don't love you. They tolerate you and may like you.

Dog may love you. Snake won't. Cats don't.
Zipfile has always been a mess. I have no idea why, but its interfaces have been consistently poor from a usability perspective. This well before py3 was a factor.
Customers? Various non-angel funds? Personal savings? Credit cards? Crowdfunding? Debt? These are all the approaches people have used.

I'm not saying that if you can get it from an Angel willing to part with their money you should, but most angels get burned out / burned pretty fast. They should realize that most likely they'll be throwing away their money and never see a return. If they still want to give it to you, then go for it. But there are other ways.

Personally, getting it from customers is the best form of capital. You're actually validating your business and building something of value.
>Develop and hold sacred the idea that organizations like the CIA, DIA, NSA, and the military (et. al) do not operate within national borders

Sulla already existed, the idea that "tradition" will keep us safe from ambition has been disproved.

>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

What kind of organization is immune to an intelligence agency?

>honestly, hope for the best

Again, we have conclusive proof that this failed with the Nixon plumbers.
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It is documented in the articles: failure modes have to be trained if they aren’t the same, and with MCAS as it should be (not as if was and failed catastrophically twice) they can’t be the same. New devices have to be recertified. Two sensors can’t be redundant, three would be again not the same plane. Newer computers won’t be the same plane etc.

Wait to see what the final opinion of European agencies are once the latest changes are evaluated and you’ll see that it’s not the same plane, even if Boeing all the time bent over backwards over the dead bodies of others.
This almost doesn’t even matter. I swore I’d never buy an Apple product, but that changed after yet another Google “core” (nexus/pixel) phone got busted after an update. I’ve been happy with my iPhone for months now. The quality is just better in every single way—and most of the quality issues aren’t going to be solved by tinkering with the deck chairs like this. These “bloatware” apps are just symptoms of a larger issue: Google isn’t a hardware or consumer goods company, and it shows in every way in this product space.
I find these stories enormously humanizing. We're here to beat the odds. Never surrender.
I bothered to write an email to them asking about other subtitles, than the handful I'm not interested in. Never got a reply. Would be really nice to watch some series/movies with, in our case at home, Russian subtitles. Or heck vice versa, Russian audio track with English subtitles, I honestly don't care anymore.

And I'm sure they exist, I remember their subtitle 'program'.

https://partnerhelp.netflixstudios.com/hc/en-us/articles/115...

I really thought that would provide users with more subtitle options to choose from.
I think what people miss about the industry of Science is that, logically, if a paper says "A=Foo" then we'd expect it to be true. And if another comes out that says, "A=Bar" then it's confusing, are both wrong, are both right.

But instead, the way it works is a consensus is built. Researcher Bob - "We see that A=Foo." Researcher Sally -"Well, I see that A=Bar." Researcher Timmy - "Well, I see that A=Far." Researcher Kimmy - "Well, I see it as A=Fbar." Community over time - "Now the community has seen that A=Fbar is consistently correct and can be relied upon and used." 20 years pass... Researcher Jeff - "Well, I see that Ab=Fbar actually." Community - "That's bullshit." Researcher Betty - "Well, actually I see that too. But I see Ab=FbarC". etc etc

Since we don't know what we don't know, it isn't really a "We're done!" situation for someone to get 100% correct, it's a process of evolution in knowledge.
>Not if you're throwing a more specific exception. So the second and third methods are compatible with the first one, but not the other way around.

These are public classes and third party code will have overridden the original exception and not your subtype. This would break compatibility. You cannot change the types of these signatures in either direction.
There is a levels of indirection problem with that explanation.

Using Dhall to create the YML you will use isn't great, but it's quite possible today and is much better than using YAML to script a YAML generator that will read some more YAML to create the YAML you will use.

I guess some people simply like YAML.
I'm not a typical HN user. I probably earn less than 70% of you, and most of my salary goes straight to alimony. Taxes take half of the rest.

It's not that those taxes don't sting for me--they surely do--but rather that I think the social effects of worklessness will be huge. It wouldn't take that much for the US to drop into the second world.
> I’d consider investing in biopharma to be equivalent in risk reward to early stage startup investing.

Similar risk reward, but it seems harder to have any insight into a pharma startup's chances of success. Sure, it is easier to gauge potential market (% of people affected by condition X), but whether they will be able to develop a product is a total dice roll.
Don't use the "but think of the children" argument. If makes no sense and just plays to emotions, rather than logic.
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I know that its a different architecture.

The question is whether it's worthwhile to adapt that new programming model and architecture? What can be achieved that is not possible or is price compatible with something boring and old-fashioned like 128 x64 cores etc.

I am all for new architectures. But the trick is getting people to make the effort to make use of them.

I think that when I write a good comment it gets buried and the only time comments are really popular is when I write something trite or silly that a lot of people are already thinking.
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It doesn't make much sense to build hardware to run an intermediate language. Java bytecode isn't optimised; almost all optimisation is meant to happen in the JIT. If you build a processor that runs bytecode directly, when does the optimisation occur? Presumably never.

Low-horsepower platforms are probably the best place to give it a go, as they may struggle to run a respectable JIT compiler, but as you say, Jazelle didn't catch on.
Sorry, I should have been clearer. I did not mean to imply that they were fake reasons but they seem way less material in hindsight.
I was literal about any and all vehicles. That includes delivery trucks and trains. And bicycles. Bicycle accidents can kill people.

So if 240 children killed by vehicles is too many and we set a goal no other than perfection then we have to get rid of vehicles.

Or we accept a statistic greater than zero.
It's because it actually is a lot of money for academia. The "make 200k-400k signing bonus at a tech firm" is approximately the same as "just have the truck drivers join FAANG for a 50k signing bonus" - as in, there aren't that many positions that pay that well, there's a ton of competition for them, there isn't enough for everybody, so the vast majority of people are going to take this option for a variety of reasons.
Can you tell us more about the bug?
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You can search for a language on Netflix though, e.g., search for "Italian" and it will show several tags next to "Explore titles related to", like "Italian-languae Movies & TV".
Not sure why you put that in quotes. It's also not what I "think" but a pretty widely shared opinion. I'm not really taking sides here, it's common knowledge that the FBI botched their investigation of Trump/Russia.

1. https://theintercept.com/2019/12/11/fbi-trump-russia-investi...

2. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/09/us/politics/fbi-ig-report...
Disagree. I think it's value is mostly unrelated to that.
(PS: I did not downvote you).
People have the same rights. However, relative economic value is definitely different from person to person. Denying this is denying basic reality.

Taking an example from a parent post - caregivers do NOT have high relative economic value. Anyone over 18 can become a caregiver without even passing high school and become a certified home care aide. Enforcing a higher pay through law will is only likely to increase un-employment. The market on the other hand is self-correcting.

The federal government being the lender for loans has only lead to higher cost of loans and un-employed arts graduates who cannot get a job and cannot payback those loans. Without the federal government backing, those loans were un-likely to have been offered in the first place, unless there was current/future demand for arts graduates.

I strongly believe that most aspects of living (for people and communities as you put it) indeed need a dollar value otherwise un-realistic and un-workable economic expectations come into play.

We have seen this play out in the past with failed governments and we will continue to see this in the future.
Only the less serious charges had passed the statute of limitations.
Right, they could have paid a nontrivial cost (asking devs to use b-strings, print_function, etc) but didn't by fiat, choosing instead to pay a greater cost during the migration in addition to the nontrivial cost. My comment expresses skepticism about that decision.
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US universities have been offering generous scholarships and green cards to German PhDs for a long time, with the obvious goal of making their research available for US companies to use.

In fact, cherry-picking the worldwide top talent is one of the core aspects of silicon valley culture.

Why is it offensive that China is using the same approach as the US for building their own silicon valley equivalent?