skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A big problem is that Python 2 and Python 3 are simply not the same language. They look a lot alike, but they have substantial differences.

So, it's not just that Python 3 has arrived, but that a separate and widely used language is being killed, in a way that may very well stick.

That's really a rather bizarre turn, and hasn't happened that much in the history of programming languages. I'm having trouble thinking of a similar example. Perhaps Objective-C or VB, but those they were controlled by corporations.

In the open source world, has the stick ever been used before to kill off a language?
> dick pic app so fuck em.

> fucking

> shit

> horseshit

> arrogant fucksteins

> crap

I'm not usually one to flaunt the HN guidelines, but I would suggest a read-through, and perhaps exploring different venues for venting frustrations.
The problem is "mostly solved" by adding a warning to a single compiler?

Sure, there are plenty of ways to mitigate the problem. That's not the point. The point is that the problem should not have arisen in the first place to require ongoing mitigation fifty years later!
The Low Prices vs. Bargains Dilemma
> Most programmers are complexity junkies getting paid to feed their habit.

Maybe more so today, but historically I've come to appreciate programmers as megalomaniacal control freaks - myself included, which programming allows them to exercise within the harmless confines of an imaginary world hosted by microprocessors and the attached storage.

It has been evolving though. Computers became networked, now software controls much of the real world, it's far less harmless than before. We also used to strive for minimizing complexity, I'm not sure how much of that was intentional or just a consequence of limited space while RAM was so expensive.
Coding Trees in Python – Computerphile [video]
What about a regulation requiring reasonable safety checks?
Not an API, but these same reasons are why I love hosting my sites with NearlyFreeSpeech.NET. It’s all about incentives being aligned. Pay-as-you-go is great for that.
This was really really informative. I realized my eyes were totally looking for the wrong thing, and also spent too much time looking at swimmers who were swimming under water..
Fair point - yes, I kind of try to avoid it for any provider. But special thing about Google is they are raising prices or worse cancelling or modifying services at will.

For AWS or Azure I developed way more trust over time - could be subjective - but also could be that there is a reason Google is distant 3rd in the game.
anybody knows - is that new slim sensor package a major upgrade to the set/quality of sensors or just a re-packaging? They've only recently appeared in MV, so i haven't been able to get a good look yet :) It is interesting that it appeared on the wave of doubling of the Waymo staff in 1 year plus major outside investment and all those new announcements. It makes one wonder whether they've got major improvements or are only gearing toward it and/or just preparing to expand the operations for one final push across the finish line.
> only a N95 or better mask would protect you from incoming

That is not only completely false but is extremely dangerous misinformation.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/09/190903134732.h...

> The study reported 'no significant difference in the effectiveness' of medical masks vs. N95 respirators for prevention of influenza or other viral respiratory illness.
> Yeah probably reduced, but it may be more to do with them becoming contaminated.

How effective is the virus after the mask has been unused for a while (so "cold", like a doorknob or a desk)? If it is not, the mask should be good to go then, doesn't it?
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Denmark: almost everybody lives less than 30 miles from the Sea (or big lakes). More than 80% get swimming lessons in school.

Not being able to swim is viewed as "having a bit of a handicap" that you should fix as soon as possible.
I sense you've never been a low-income undergrad who has experienced the crushing burden of repaying a student loan without having either the a degree or career prospects to show for it.
IBM vs. MIT: an Apollo computer showdown
Well, since Snapchat is a glorified nude-sharing app, it makes sense for the use case.
Project Sandcastle Kernel
I have to say some of the things that I assumed were quirks turn out to be well engineered decisions once I learnt powershell in full.

For example I started appreciating the way output in PS1 works only after using the parallel for each and was floored by how everything fell in place.

Take this from a full time Linux user, if you're not using powershell you're using an inferior shell.

One major downside for cli warriors though- it takes a couple of seconds to start. (at least 6, I don't knoe about 7).
Ah, yes `6 * 2 ^ (31 / 4)` is much larger than 100. Good point.
Myth or not, ask people which have birds like Budgerigars, or watch it for your self. When you give them mixed food, they always go for the hemp seeds first, even by picking
through maybe an ounce of corns/seeds until they get to the few hemp ones. Why is that?
There have been some theories (that has not been tested at all) that hot and humid climates might be less susceptible to the virus due to the virus not surviving in the air as long. Not sure if this can be applied to small vapor clouds though.
I don’t think all taxi drivers work with a dispatch company. Most just pick people up at the side of the road don’t they?
EKS only gives you 99.9% uptime, and I'm uncertain as to whether you could achieve more than 99.9% uptime on your own by DIYing your cluster in a public cloud provider without doing multi-region.
IMO there isn't a distinction between Launch/Show, or at least one that's well understood. When we were going through our launch we asked what the difference was and didn't get a clear answer.
Oh sorry for that. We will fix it now.
Twitter test-launching ephemeral tweets called Fleets
I wish I had been more cognizant of this with some of the people that were in my life.
This is easy to prevent. First of all, it’d be crammed with cameras. If it’s truly unmanned, there wouldn’t be a steering wheel, so it would be impossible for a human to drive, even if a robber could somehow gain access to the locked cabin. The trailer can also be secure with heavy locks. I suppose you could brute force your way into the cabin, but you’d need another truck to load the goods onto. So what’s the plan, drive an empty semi down the highway in the middle of the night, somehow hijack and break into an unmanned one unnoticed, load up pallets of dog food or onions or whatever the thing might be transporting, quickly enough before cops show up? Good luck!
Yeah, there are many political reasons for criminalizing it.

What I found pretty eye-opening in the sense of "Oh wow, that's so obvious, I actually didn't think about that" was that one of the reasons was the American Prohibition in the 30s, and after it was abolished, a bunch of people were about to lose their jobs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXPOw2unxy0
> Their pay is higher to make up the difference.

I thought part of the problem was that it isn't, in general.
It seems like Yang has written something nice on Twitter about every candidate who dropped out? He seems to like people and praise doesn't cost anything.

I don't know if it's mutual, though?
>Provocation studies on EMF have yielded different results, ranging from where people with EHS cannot discriminate between an active RF signal and placebo, to objectively observed changes following exposure in reactions of the pupil, changes in heart rhythm, damage to erythrocytes, and disturbed glucose metabolism in the brain.

The paper you linked admits that there are studies that show it's the same as a placebo. Just because most people aren't qualified to realize that the studies in the first half of the sentence might be more reliable than the studies in the second half doesn't mean the paper shouldn't be published.
Yeah, the SPARQL people need to realize that the semantic web was a massive dud in the programming and database market, and a lot of that was overreach, overpromise, and a lack of focus on "real-world" problems.

Thus, if someone is looking to unify graph QLs that are in actual use in "business" problems, SPARQL and the overall RDF aren't going to get attention. You can start with the fact that RDF basically assumes you want to globally address all your data with URIs, which will result in ridiculously verbose overhead in naming/addressing. Nevermind the fact that such things basically promise some sort of long term durability that the actual web has shown doesn't exist. After all, today's URI link to URI www.tla.com/link/to/some/data can mean the world wide wrestling foundation one day, and the world wildlife foundation the next.

In particular, Gremlin was adopted by DSE / Titan / successor to Titan which ran atop Cassandra for near-limitless scalability.

RDF and the Semantic web, while being intended for the massive WWW, seemed to not have any care for demonstrating techniques, queries, and architectures at scale.

Likewise, are Datalog and Prolog used extensively?
Which axe are you grinding? If you took this personal then maybe something stuck because it should? If you mean there is no cussing allowed then I missed that for sure.

Edit: ah checked your history. So you say things like "Amazon reviews are about as trustworthy as the selling points of a slimy salesman" thus impugning Amazon and salespeople in general but are coming after me because you are no doubt personally miffed by either previous comments I have made or the ones above because they struck a chord. The guidelines also say basically downvote or flag don't whine and they say don't get political which is an unenforced joke no doubt only meant to apply to those the current moderators dislike.

Bottom line, I found your posts and style criminally boring, your tone here hypocritical and am glad we both get to have an opinion. HAND.
It is interesting how absolutely passionate some people are about masks. There is a pretty heady contingent here that seems to be of the "I DID MY PART" sort (by mindlessly pushing an absurd anti-science anti-mask angle -- I was one of the silly minority countering it a few days ago, to very little effect).

"If you wear a mask your testicles will shrink and everyone will hate you!"

But the more important question: Is it time to stop trimming nose hairs?
Weddings are monumental, memorable, and fun events for family and friends. They add a richness to life. People in my family still talk about weddings from literally decades ago and it's a great way to bring people together and make memories. You don't need to spend $50k on a wedding. You also don't need to go uber-frugal. There's a happy medium out there for most people.
I wonder how his audiences back then perceived this issue.
The indoor pictures he made by just entering and firing a pistol with magnesium (later a frying pan).
The outdoor ones he had to stage to some extent because of the long exposure times. Of course he took advantage of this, and the immigrants also wanted to pose for the camera.
For anyone back then knowing anything about photography (which in his audience might have been quite a few) it should have been obvious that e.g. the photo of three boys stealing from a drunk man was staged, you could not make snapshots of quick actions.
Build status immediately jumps to mind.
OVH also offer a free control plane, but their service is relatively beta so far.
If you have a cold or anything else infectious, please work from home if at all possible.
The issue is a mask shortage.
I really don't get it. Twitter has five thousand full-time employees. I have to assume at least 20% of them are in product development in some capacity. What exactly are these people doing all day?

I can't point to a single notable product innovation they've had in years. And they continue to ignore the drumbeat of user asking for an edit button, and are completely unable to come up with any kind of reasonable solution to the abuse or bot problems.

I don't know Kayvon personally, but what exactly is wrong with Twitter that it's so bad and slow at product development?
With the “lose” being the US-based developers being paid less by virtue of working at HP instead of Microsoft.
Thank God you realize this. Just yesterday I noticed that systemd uses azure pipelines for testing and somebody as wise as you told me that Microsoft is slowly adding windows Installer code to systemd and in a few years you may think you're installing linux but upon first boot systemd will actually install windows.
If anyone is reading this a few days after this post.

Medical experts who are working with this specific virus wrote:

> Many believe that in most circumstances, the virus can live for a couple of hours to a couple of days, depending on the surface and the environment around it.

That is taken from one of the "verified" replies in https://www.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/fdf5fq/we_are_....

So a DVD being shipped "in a few days" (which is completely reasonable) falls in line with potentially still being infected if a glossy coated DVD sleeve or DVD is a material that can host this virus for days.

I called Netflix about this and they said they do sanitize DVDs between shipments since they contain personally identifiable data like fingerprints but didn't mention how it was sanitized or guaranteed it would be sanitized. They also didn't mention the sleeve being sanitized that contains the DVD which is definitely re-used between shipments since it's always in questionable shape.
When I lived in Chicago I used to practice riding the L without touching anything with my hands. In the Bay I kept up the habit.

This is never not a good idea, so no time like the present to get into it.
https://www.who.int/dg/speeches/detail/who-director-general-...

Its CFR is 3.4% according to WHO (actual number may be be higher than this because it is an early statistic and does not take into account patients that are still struggling and may eventually die).
Snapchat at least warns you that someone screenshotted it.
> Their pay is higher to make up the difference.

Citation needed. Please include costs of owning, operating, and maintaining an automobile in your calculations.
Thanks for the comment, this is really interesting. I guess i'm still confused what people actually do with these PDF's though. Are people looking at a PDF sent to them and manually entering that data somewhere else (like payroll or accounting), so this tool would take that data from the PDF and pump it in there automatically?

Thanks again, I just want to make sure I understand.
Arguably spreading that money around more would be a huge improvement. What's Harvard going to do with yet another billion dollars that really matters? Send a million each to a thousand community colleges, and you could get a ferocious payoff for society.
In the US, over 40 hours simply means 1.5x your regular payrate after the 40th hour, if you're "non exempt", i.e. hourly. Some employers might offer something more.

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/overtime
Waiters can be employees of a restaurant. Who can taxi drivers be an employee of?
Which is why so many people are on 29/34/39 hour schedules.
Opt-in for the SLA and additional cluster cost would be fantastic. We run pretty small clusters but don't need any additional SLA's on top of what's already provided. Frankly we could care less about the control plane SLA.
There seems not to be a link here ... was that intentional?
This is like when people started calling Glenn Greenwald an "alt-right supporter" because he said he admired the rise and efficacy of Brietbart's operations some time during or after the previous election (can't remember when exactly, it was after they skyrocketed from fringe site to a major news operation).

Social media is turning sections of the public back a few centuries where mere a positive reference is guilt-by-association and the tribalistic off-with-the-head mentality kicks in.

It's quite nasty and anti-intellectual, and the growing prevalence and toleration of it for political ends honestly scares me a bit.
Snapchat sends a notification to the sender when someone screenshots their content, will be interesting to see if Twitter does the same.
The losers are the local people who get fewer opportunities as a result. Not saying it's good or bad, just putting it out there.
JPMorgan tests coronavirus preparations by asking employees work remotely
The Ozobot is probably too delicate for a three-year-old.

The Sphero is solid, however I agree w/ your views on it.

We’ve found the best bang for buck is the Photon Robot.

Another option is the Cubetto which is also age appropriate.

Credentials: Owner of (and perform testing on) a 7, 5 and 3yo + littlebird.com.au which sells all of the above.
Curiosity Mars Rover Snaps 1.8B-Pixel Panorama (Narrated Video)
> They probably don't pay you enough.

Can confirm :)

> ...we do already pay for resources that are provisioned by our K8S clusters

Customers are charged for worker nodes, but until this point, the control plane ("master") nodes have been free. In addition to the raw compute costs for those nodes, there's the SRE overhead for managing, upgrading, and securing them.

> ...but I generally assumed that that cost was amortized out

<googlehat>I'm not really sure.</googlehat>
<civilian>My guess would be that, initially, this was the case. However, over time, people have created many zero-node clusters. Now the amortization isn't. Again, pure speculation.</civilian>

> But, isn't that quotas are for?

See my comment above about zero-node clusters.

> I have a new $73/mo. fee attached to my account (which, is not the end of the world) is that this really comes out of left field...

Acknowledge, but I do want to highlight that changes take place a few months from now (June 2020), not immediately. Furthermore, each billing account gets one zonal cluster with no management fee.

> Is this the precursor to you all discontinuing GKE because, as the DevRel class likes to tweet, nobody should be using Kubernetes if they can use (more expensive) services like Cloud Run?

100% no. Also, Cloud Run is almost always cheaper than running a Kubernetes cluster.

> Are we about to get Oracled?

I'm not sure what you mean by that verb.
With modules my pwsh 6 usually starts between 700ms - 2s. Not a big deal to me though.
Honestly I understand the hard work it takes to manage all the clusters, but this was a total bait and switch and hurts the reputation that everyone has with Google Cloud. Telling us to DIY because we cannot pay $71 just sounds like someone who works at Google would say, which you do work at Google.

The sentiment with my clients before was that Google Cloud was a great choice because of the security and expertise with GKE. It's also free!

Meanwhile, in the back of my head I've always had this fear because of your reputation that you do not keep your promises and that you do not care about your users. Because of this fear, we have tried to make every infrastructure decision not use a managed service by Google even though it may be easier to do so short-term.

For the product I'm working on, we decided to use Kubernetes just in case you baited and switched us with the reputation you have. In terms of monitoring, we really wanted to use Stackdriver, but now we're 100% using fluent-bit + prometheus + loki + grafana. It's the only way to protect ourselves from your reputation which is becoming a reality.

So yeah, this is pretty sad and a bad decision. Should have priced GKE at $70 / month to begin with and we would have been fine with it. Now we're (actually) looking at EKS since Amazon doesn't seem to have this reputation and you've spooked us. We never would have thought about using any other provider until today.
Right, I get it. I agree with everything you said. You are rational and correct.

However, none of that is to my point.

The OP said, "The US has an active, very vocal anti-vax community." and then said "The first sign of trouble of any kind with a new COVID-19 vaccine would result in a backlash of biblical proportions. It could be so strong as to derail any attempt at a follower."

That's what I am objecting to, I don't think that anti-vaxxer superstition would be increased by a bunch of scientists saying, "yeah, there's a side-effect" because that's not superstition, eh?

I'm finding it hard to articulate my point, which is weird because it seems to clear to me in my mind.

I don't think the masses would chuck science in the bin and huddle in fear, unvaccinated, waiting to see if they live or die from covad, just because there is some side-effect of the vaccine, unless it was somehow more horrible than, uh, huddling in fear, vaccinated but with some side-effects, waiting to see if they live or die from covad.
Engage or don't - anyone who has spent time with British or American tourists has picked up on this and I have no need to convince people of it.
No need if you can have the drive unit changed just off the highway in a well mapped/instrumented yard. eg.

highway (fully automated truck)
<> yard (switch out container/trailer from self-driving truck to manned/normal trucks)
<> local (manned)
All of this is a legal system that has a square hole and a circular hole not knowing what to do with a triangular peg. Governments job is to realize that this is a new category of work and create laws specifically to address it.
I just recently found out about these two types of system. It's strange how people (like shown in the article) don't emphasize(know) it when talking about types in languages.

Interestingly, python has included structural subtyping in 3.8[1] as part of the typing module.

[1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0544/
I used to work for a company that made long-life self-contained GPS locators, for commercial asset tracking. I remember how much we chortled ironically when a shipment of our devices was literally stolen by a hapless meth addict who noticed keys left in the ignition.

Everyone was laughing because "ha, that idiot stole a thousand GPS trackers, he's the most tracked criminal ever!" But of course every single one of those trackers was in sleep mode, and the only tracking bug was not part of the shipment. Sure, he was caught red-handed within half an hour while a police dispatcher watched a moving dot on a google map, but he was only being tracked by a single device, and we had no way to remote-active the other thousand.

Just an amusing related anecdote.
I would rather have the CPU+memory concept as well. But I think you’re running the applications on the customers’ cloud accounts, right? In that case, if you want to stick to value-based-pricing, I would look at the amount of users the customer has rather than amount of containers. The latter depends upon the complexity of software and the choices of architecture, rather than “value” gained from your product.

Having said all this, you have a great product and something like this has always been on my “dream list”, which tops my wish list. It always struck me as the ultimate form of immutable, throwaway infrastructure but I never had a proper excuse to build the necessary tooling to do this. Seems like you guys did, and I’ll be keen to give it a try!
I think that the fear was of a mask shortage. Infected quarantined > Potentially Infected COVID-19 contacts wearing masks > Uninfected wearing masks.
Well it gives a cross-platform scripting language. This can be useful for setting up projects in a dev-shop with both Macs and Windows machines.

It's also a nicer scripting language since it's table-based rather than string-based like Bash et al.
>Does that mean that a taxi driver is an employee? Of course not.

Not disagreeing with the absurdity of this, but aren't taxi drivers usually employees when there's a centralized call number to hail a cab? That, or they are truly independent. So I don't see the argument here.