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Of course weird domain specific libraries are a major reason to use python. I can get my oddball service up in a few days vs weeks or months to replicate some bizarre library.

If all you're doing is basic web stuff then sure you can do it in Lang du jour but even after a decade go doesn't have a competent xml library for example.

Time to market is killer. Python buys you time to determine whether your product is even worth building. Deployment sucks though.

e: I literally could not have written the services in my current role in a language other than Java or Python without replicating 100kloc libraries. Java would have required a bunch of work to integrate with the other services we had. So: python. If that costs me an extra $1k/mo for servers but gets us a customer paying $100k a month, was it wasteful?
I think what’s she’s getting at is that RPC usually comes bundled with some kind of strictly typed serialization format and standard infrastructure (service discovery, dispatch, error handling, etc.). A lot of web frameworks just take one request and hand it to a function, and the rest, including decoding the loose JSON that might be in the body, is up to you.
The keys this article is talking about aren't (necessarily) keys you don't have to "Pull out of your pocket". What's "smart" about them is that the car's immobilizer technology talks to them before agreeing to let the vehicle be driven.

Hence the article says thieves would be able to "hot wire" a car after using this attack. You can't (if manufacturer's did their job properly) "hot wire" modern cars like you see in a movies, the computer overseeing things doesn't let it be driven anywhere just because somebody jammed a screwdriver in a hole and taped some wires together.

Keyless entry and keyless ignition are entirely different technologies that have a different problem (relay attacks) which has been covered a long time ago and has numerous quite different solutions from this.

This article is about the all-to-common situation where somebody cut too many corners and left themselves open to a pretty easy cryptographic vulnerability. (Some) Car manufacturers did a crap job of making the "smart" key that disables the immobilizer actually secure, and bad guys can use that to clone such a key and drive off in your car. If they didn't also copy the mechanical shape of the key (which would be more effort) they can smash the lock just as they would have in the 1980s to steal a car. Some of them might even remember stealing cars in the 1980s and not need to learn a new technique.
So long as Google Play Services is installed, there's only so much you can do to limit it. It's essentially equivalent to giving Google root access to your phone.

The best thing you can do is cut off Google completely. Install AOSP, LineageOS or a similar ROM and don't install Play Services. Get apps from FDroid or where necessary something like Aurora Store (an open-source Play Store implementation). Don't use apps that depend on Google. There are alternative apps for maps that are pretty great, mostly OSM based (e.g. OSMAnd and the Maps.me-based "Maps" app in FDroid).

However that's not always something you can do. Some apps just won't work without some kind of connection to Google. For those, there's MicroG, an open-source implementation of Play Services that gives you a whole lot more control and even allows you to use different location backends like those provided by Mozilla or Apple.
An upcoming service that should be more trustworthy, based on the reputation of Basecamp, is https://hey.com/

The entire premise seems to be that email was once fun and worry-free, and can become that again.
And I completely agree. I'm 100% for a true UBI, but as long as that's not yet politically feasible, I'm also for other solutions we can more likely implement in the meantime (like Medicare For All).
Israel would have been happy to participate. It's the coalition of arab countries that the US formed that would not accept Israel. In fact the US pressured Israel to not retaliate to Iraqi missiles fired at them.

So here's litmus test, what other country would accept a US request to not retaliate to ballistic missiles fired at them. So maybe Israel is US's only ally.
Everyone here is talking like they don't remember the protest. The restroom policy change was in response to a protest alleging them of racism. The homeless had nothing to do with it.

From the linked study:

> In May 2018, in response to protests, Starbucks changed its policies nationwide to allow anybody to sit in their stores and use the bathroom without making a purchase.

From April 2018: https://www.npr.org/2018/04/17/603093380/protests-continue-a...

> Protests continued Monday at a Philadelphia Starbucks where two black men were arrested Saturday after an employee accused them of trespassing.
It should be a construction approximately: first DHE and then the car challenging the fob to MAC a unique message. Exponential backoff after every failed attempt for that token (fob).
The problem is that is now how Scrum is sold. If you claim Scrum doesn't work for your particular team/project, the usual answer is that you are not implementing Scrum correctly.
>You don't know that GPS was required, nor whether or not cell records were subpoenaed as part of this investigation. All we have is what Google told the guy in the story.

I do know that because cell tower triangulation is on average only precise within about a square mile, which is considered far too broad for these types of searches.

>Apple has a location history feature just like Google does. If that data ever reaches their machines in a non-anonymized way, then it's subject to subpoena just like anyone else's data is. Do you have a cite that explains why this is impossible?

Location history on ios is stored locally, not logged and stored by Apple. Any data that is passed to Apple is anonymized. Per Apple:

"Where you go says a lot about you. Maps delivers a great experience without Apple knowing which stores, neighborhoods, or clinics you visit. And because Maps doesn’t include a sign-in, where you go isn’t associated with your Apple ID at all. Personalized features, like locating your parked car, are created right on your device. Data used to improve navigation, such as routes and search terms, is not associated with your identity. Instead, that information is based on random identifiers that are constantly changing."

AND

"If Location Services is on, your iPhone will periodically send the geo-tagged locations of nearby Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers (where supported by a device) in an anonymous and encrypted form to Apple, to be used for augmenting this crowd-sourced database of Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower locations."

https://www.apple.com/privacy/
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207056
eh, it seems like the obvious solution to these problems is to provision some public bathrooms, you know, Netherlands-style.
> But US doesn't provide source code too. Many defense deals with India could not proceed because of US denying transfer of technology.

SAAB understands this. They are offering source code with their Gripen deal for the upcoming India fighter jet procurement. I'm not 100% sure, but I'm assuming that neither Boeing nor Lockheed Martin are planning to offer that.

I hear this was a key reason for why Brazil went with SAAB Gripen rather than Boeing F-18. (The "official reason" was that Snowden revealed US spying on Brazil, as if that was news to Brazil...)
As much as I love Python I still tell people don't use it for performance sensitive applications.
Sounds good! Expect mail next week. And I ain't good at this whole networking thing neither.
How much of an inconvenience would it be if your car gets stolen having 4 kids and both arms full of groceries in contrast to placing the bags on the floor for a second?

I have this smart key thingy too and I keep it in one of those RFID pouches. Since I don't have to use the key to start the engine, I feel the whole thing became more of a problem than it was before. You at least always knew where the key is and where to put it. Now it sometimes slids down the seat, or is in my jacket that I wanted to leave in the car or the engine/electric is not on/off because pushing the button does several things. It became an inconvenience and the few times I really used the automatic open feature after deliberately taking out the key out of the pouch to profit from it are negligible.
I heard they were running heavily loaded (= not empty) trains back and forth without any purpose other than meeting ton-km quotas, but I wasn't able to find a source...

Edit: Found an article mentioning this practice: https://mont.thesentinel.com/2019/10/03/one-imperfect-day-in...
At this point, I imagine there's likely a similar law to Betteridge's that states:

Any headline that starts with "we have to talk about" can be answered by the words "do we?"
> Surely everyone knows about Reader mode by now?

Possibly, but why do we need the feature when the website could simply use black text on a white background? When websites start doing things like this or not displaying static text when javascript is disabled, then I just skip over it.
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Then who pays to maintain the home, pay the property taxes, utilities? Who pays to unclog the plumbing? Do you keep paying if they keep destroying things?

Lacking a home is actually not the problem for the majority of the homeless.

It's addiction and mental illness and both are very hard to treat, especially those unwilling to be treated.
I like how an innocent person needs to have a criminal mindset to avoid going to jail for a made up charge. I mean this attitude "never talk to the police" seems backwards until you realise why. Someone made a good analogy that police is the HR department of the state and you know that if an HR wants to talk to you, it's rarely for your benefit.
> when you’ve got 4 arms arms full of groceries

Damnit, speaking of unwanted features...
Pretty sure this was announced at the same time as Sign On with Apple originally, no?

According to the Wayback Machine, the same terms were present as early as October 1st 2019 (maybe earlier; didn't look):

https://web.archive.org/web/20191001161920/https://developer...
Only in suburbia. In the cities they frequently had code locks and required purchase to use.
I should have been more clear and said "foster a culture of regulatory competence and good judgment".

This is certainly achievable with the right leadership, wide-basis political protection (cannot be achieved when an agency's leadership is subject to unprincipled undercutting by the President), and sufficient resources.
As a potentially naive thought experiment, if you just generated in advance a number of random networks of similar size to the pruned lottery ticket, and then trained them all in parallel, would you eventually find a lottery ticket? If so how many would you have to train to find a lottery ticket with high probability? Why is training one big network and then pruning any better than training lots of different smaller network? Assume in all of the above that you have a rough idea of how big the pruned network will be be.
Oh wow what a huge amount of content. This is fantastic. Really nailing the goal of being an online museum.
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> the "entire reason for its existence" was to mount larger more fuel-efficient engines.

On a 737 type. Not on a completely different type which would require retraining all 737 crew and lose months worth of flight time. Even less so for companies like Southwest which fly 737s exclusively.
There is nothing that says that "RPC" can't do multiple request/response cycles over an existing open (and encrypted) connection rather than initiate a new one for every call, just like HTTP. Or even pipeline them like HTTP/2.0
That was during the Six Day War in '67. As I recall, the US had threatened to wipe out Israel's air forces if they attacked Cairo. And the US did that because the Soviets had threatened to nuke Tel Aviv if Israel did that, given their alliance with Egypt.

So that was perhaps the context for the Liberty attack. And it could have triggered WWIII.
How does that work if the individual given the home can't pay for taxes, maintenance, utilities, etc? It seems like the area would quickly turn into a slum.
Italy Plans Large-Scale Lockdown in Country’s North to Fight Coronavirus
Whats old is new again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllAdvantage
It even gets murkier when you consider people like Susanne Klatten, one of the heirs of BMW. Definitely a heiress, but then she did pretty well with what she inherited. So, entrepreneur or heir? Or both?
Adjusted age-specific case fatality ratio during the Covid-19 epidemic in Hubei [pdf]
The interesting aspect of the study is that they compared Starbucks to nearby cafes/restaurants. So nearby locations could have had a 10% increase while Starbucks had a 3% increase.

While SBUX has all that data, they would only see their own data.
I agree there's been so many posts recently I've written a filter to remove them all from hacker news. Ugh.
The American model for government funding is also a bit messed up ( at least what I remember from high school civics in the 1980s) where each department must spend what they are allocated or the department is guaranteed to get less money in the next fiscal year budget. I could be wrong but this creates a disincentive for saving money as most states and the federal government work on the same model.
Agreed on both (a) I usually like the author’s articles and (b) think she’s missing the point on this one.

gevent and gunicorn were good attempts to remedy a bad situation. async/await is the solution that the Python community is coalescing around. Even with Django, there are active efforts to support ASGI. [1]

[1]: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/howto/deployment/asgi/...
Sure, if a law-abiding citizen was trained and followed the military nuclear safety procedures, could actually afford said nuclear weapon and implementation of all applicable regulations along with appropriate inspections and all applicable oversight and background checks, I honestly wouldn't care if they had a WMD.

At that point, there is little difference between between a military officer having access or a citizen having access.
Phone as fob is more or less here. Probably watches too.
Maybe it's more like an informal colony.
y and this optimizes for the highest bidder, i.e. most profitable and not the airline best serving the user.
Do the homeless get a card or something? How do they prove their situation?
This is a fun and directionally interesting comparison, but it's ultimately meaningless.

Cash flows with different durations can't be used in carry trades so this cannot be exploited even if you have a hypothesis about the relative risk of each asset.

Convexity increases the price of high duration cash flows which drives down yields of instruments such as the 30 year treasury.
If planes are really empty, why can they not just pay the airport fees since I believe that is all the airports care about.

Or, perhaps take off, and separately land, a smaller plane such as a Cessna.
California beach real estate is about as safe as it gets.
The oddity I've personally had, is I had been planning a summer trip to Germany for the Euro 2020 tournament (assuming they don't get cancelled.) However, I hadn't bought plane tickets yet. Due to the virus, I figured I might get cheaper rates. The opposite has been true. The round trip went from ~$1200 up to ~$1800 in just a month or two. I'm still tracking flights, but so far I haven't seen a good dip in pricing. I don't know if airline pricing isn't reacting to supply/demand, or if there hasn't been that big of a dip in US to Europe passenger traffic.
There's probably a lot of truth to this. I've heard that they have to source their beans from many different suppliers and resort to over-roasting to ensure a more consistent (albeit, burnt) flavor.

Most of the smaller shops source their beans from local roasters, or even do the roasting themselves.
Who cares? Beggars don't get to be choosers. The social landscape of the USA has had a lot of shifts over time but in parallel to this is our military apparatus which has operated with a long running philosophy of self sufficiency and pre-emptive readiness. If Israel won't play ball we'll go elsewhere or roll our own, if anything this makes them less valuable since their biggest contribution is as a test bed and not sharing source code might indicate a desire to shop the product around.
I assume this person must be losing their keys in public or somewhere unknown. Otherwise their house must have quite the bonanza of keys waiting for them.
One of the things you learn about multitasking is that in theory cooperative multitasking is the most efficient, but the least reliable. It’s cheaper (for the human) to use hard and fast rules that trade nasty surprises for vague disappointment.

This sounds like a hybrid system. The intermediary is cooperative, the client code is oblivious. I’m curioue to see how this plays out over the long haul.
Last year, npm rewrote a CPU-bound service in Node.js, Go, and Rust. They noted that the Rust version took the longest to write, but had basically no issues at runtime.

https://www.rust-lang.org/static/pdfs/Rust-npm-Whitepaper.pd...

Excerpt:

> npm’s first Rust program hasn't caused any alerts in its year and a half in production. "My biggest compliment to Rust is that it's boring," offered Dickinson, "and this is an amazing compliment." The process of deploying the new Rust service was straight-forward, and soon they were able to forget about the Rust service because it caused so few operational issues. At npm, the usual experience of deploying a JavaScript service to production was that the service would need extensive monitoring for errors and excessive resource usage necessitating debugging and restarts.
I'm with you and not a good representative of the target market for keyless fobs. slovette and aetherspawn give good use cases for some benefits. I still ask how much of a real-world problem to be solved was sticking a physical key into a steering column? What were the stated goals for developing NFC ignition fobs en re drivers, manufacturers, and the automotive industry?(1)

Apart from inevitable consequences like from this article, are benefits outweighing other intended, unintended, and inevitable consequences like these for most people?

- Forgetting car keys more often per new learned behaviors
- Fob batteries dying
- Replacing lost / broken fobs is more costly in time, money, and hassle
- Leaving fobs in the car more often

(1) Understood keyless entry / alarm / remote starting are clear benefits
Same happened on this "New Silk Road" track:

"Empty trains on the modern Silk Road: when Belt and Road interests don’t align"

https://pandapawdragonclaw.blog/2019/08/23/empty-trains-on-t...
I wonder what they mean by innovators.
Exponential backoff could DoS someone from opening their own car.
Submission Comment: This is one of the first papers I've seen that combines data from China and the Diamond Princess to account for delayed mortality, under-counted cases and asymptomatic cases. Link to the data and code on Github: https://github.com/jriou/covid_adjusted_cfr
I had a couple of discussions concerning that topic lately. And the main driver behind a lit of investments seems to be the low, or in some cases even negative, interest rates. So everyone with enough money in the bank is looking for investment opportunities raking in more than 1% of returns. Which kind of lowers the bar for investment on general, also startups loom a lot less risky than they used to.
The state of 5G deployment around the globe [audio]
Drake Is in His Feelings over Candy; Fans Worried
Hence, the problem with empty planes being flown around.
I could understand the author's idea with absolute clarity (regardless of his merit).

I don't have the slightest idea of what I've just read in your comment.
The problem is that the bathroom policy wasn't the only change. Around the same time you had many people suddenly labeling Starbucks racist for having two black men arrested [1].

So how much in the 7.3% decline of traffic is attributable to the bathroom policy change and how much to the racism issue?

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/28/coffee-shop-ra...
> Surely there are places to park planes in bulk

No, there aren't for airliners. Most are in the air at any given time.

There's boneyards and mfg. airports, and that's about it.

A possibility would be a non-operating airport in a friendly country - thinking about the new Berlin airport.

Boeing likely finally stopped making the 737 MAX after they ran out of parking space, which forced a decision.

To park even one airliner long-term requires prior permission and monthly payments.
Yet useless for telling the time
Just letting you know the link to the 10X article gives a 404.

I tried to read it, but "page does not exist".

----

Edit for clarification: First link in first paragraph after "10X" section header. About "visited the terrain before".
>This again highlights the fact that source code is a vulnerability.

it's a weapon. Even if the logic that was running it was flawless, you'd still want to see whether or not someone else has access to a function to give them control, or self destruct, or whatever.

In other words : I don't think that it has to suggest a flawed system, it could also suggest other 'government subversion', like hidden functionalities.
Why would have Israel retaliated if the US was already doing the job for them?
You're forgetting that we spend considerable time and effort tackling flu with national programmes of vaccination every year, and multi-national coordinated monitoring programmes -- the Global Influenza Surveillance & Response System.

https://www.who.int/influenza/en/

Have a look at some charts comparing death rates for flu and covid-19.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jbloom/CoV_vs_flu_CFR/mast...

https://twitter.com/vote4dongshen/status/1236136262039416832...

Covid-19 is not just another flu.

Also, the choice is not "deal with flu or coronavirus", it's "deal with flu and coronavirus as well". We already see winter pressure in most health care systems because of flu season, and adding coronavirus on top is going to be pretty devastating.
I would counter-argue that dry, positive, informational writing is great for Wikipedia but can also be very boring. This blog has a lot of snark and that's what makes digesting the great information so much fun!
> Google Location services asks before storing this data.

It certainly does not. In fact, the general prompts are just along the lines of "Maps won't work unless Location Services is on. Turn it on? [Y/N]"
My comment wasn't on who appointed the regulators but on the likelihood of the people who have the power to remove them to do so.

I'm sorry if that was unclear.
The term codes I believe is what is taught at Indian universities.

I have worked across US, UK and Australia and everywhere it is exclusively Indian developers who use the term codes. I still hear it every day and I don't believe anyone brings it up because technically both ways are right.
After recent stories on the F-35, maybe not entirely without reason.
OP here.

You've guessed what we're using the last couple of weeks. So far, I like it! It's come a long way. I've tried it a couple of times, but now even the web client works reasonably well.

And yes, of course - alphapapa software is always the best option!(;

P.S.: Nice nick! After waiting 20 years, I just watched the trilogy (extended version) with my wife last week. It's been a blast and it aged really well.