skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Red Hat, Ubuntu, etc. are going to support Python 2 for the duration of the operating system releases which shipped it. I would assume that Anaconda, et al. will have similar options for paid customers.
Very interesting. I believe that Bret Victor does the time part really well (visually) here: http://worrydream.com/MediaForThinkingTheUnthinkable/ (in demo 4).
Also, Mesh apreadsheet is very interesting in this regard, especially with K (Array based language) embedded in it. You can then write a bunch of expressions as {function} scan over initial values, both time based or otherwise. http://mesh-spreadsheet.com/
The CentOS base yum repository only has python 3.6.x. I hope they will make later 3.x branches available for installation in the near future.
Developers share their vision for a Seinfeld game
Universally I'm a huge fan of the off-by-one errors. Because the index started at 0 instead of 1, or 1 instead of 0, or the range ends one before the given number, or the difference between subtracting two numbers and then using that as a range. Or when you're using < or > when you should be using <= or >= Whoo, there's so many ways to be off by one. Good times.
Careful not to burn anything out... Though the C64 is pretty indestructible - I connected all kinds of things to the IO lines of it back in the day... And a few inadvisable cases of soldering things straight to the user port pins (I'm amazed I never destroyed any machines.... that way)

A tip is to turn off the screen during sampling and playback, as otherwise the video chip steals a lot of memory cycles.

You might then also be interested in this far more impressive playback with the C64:

https://brokenbytes.blogspot.com/2018/03/a-48khz-digital-mus...
And now for python 2.8. From somewhere, if not python.org.
We've switched off Python 2, but I really miss it. For a glorious several years we were done with "production has Python X.Y, but the code needs X.Z" and always chasing the latest minor version on LTS OS releases.

But now we're back on that treadmill...
The other side of that debate is that Proton would bring more people to Linux, and therefore the incentives for a good native version of the game on Linux would be a lot higher.
America is devolving into a Margaret Atwood dystopia so quickly that the frog may already be boiling in the pot at this point
You might actually make a point worth making if you weren't so bizarrely emotional about defending, of all things, chaebols.
Note that the protests occurred in the backdrop of market reforms to the economy. Not an expert on Tienamen Square, but that seems important.

"The reforms of the 1980s had led to a nascent market economy which benefited some people but seriously disaffected others, and the one-party political system also faced a challenge of legitimacy."
Could you explain the border-line-born bit? I don't get it.
Old account was suspended after complaints of iamadamdev of spamming his repo (while he copied commits), I guess.
So you agree that the person you had previously said is just innocuously defending "it's ok to be white" is actually a white supremacist or a troll pretending to be one?

You keep pretending like there's these innocent victims, and it turns out these people where actually what we had said they were all along.
I'm pretty sure this would be quite illegal to do to avoid state income taxes - usually you need to spend something like X% of your time in that state. Not sure about the legality of using it to get extra pay from your employer.
Not just New Yorkers, and not just 'post' Coronavirus. I've seen a fairly large number of people that had moved within the EU to other countries move back to their original home country because they don't want to be cut off from their family.
It's a big step in terms of product segmentation. You don't want to sell a drive that just fails to work in most machines.
And can I somehow short these contracts a week before the next deadline?
You're just not going fast enough.
It's a meme that just won't die even when we are currently seeing the major downsides of very high population densities. I moved from SF to a suburb in another state (with a balanced budget requirement) and have 3x the space for ⅓ the price. I am still closer in commute time to the major job centers than most of my SF coworkers were.
Can you elaborate on Xubuntu+Cinnamon? That sounds interesting.

I also just noticed that there's an Ubuntu Cinnamon which might be right up my alley as well.
Futures contracts are daily settled. So the difference between starting price and ending price has to be paid at end-of-day settlement.
Non-mobile link: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-04-20/there-...
You know where landfill ends up in when not properly sealed?

Groundwater and rain runoff.

Drinking partially degraded plastic is not exactly neutral to health. Poisoning wildlife with the added colorings or plastics themselves, neither.
Especially insidious are plastic fibres - partially synthetic textiles. These should all be burned clean at very high temperatures first.

Litter is easy to remove and even burn, micrometer level plastic dust is not. Standard water treatment at best can sediment some kinds of microplastics but not all. The cutoff levels that are safe for health for some plastics are miniscule for chronic intake. (Urethanes especially - kidney toxicity and cancer, probably others too. BPA is a joke compared to base PET stock at micrometers chronically.)
Nobody's going to spend money to build new storage facilities for an oil glut that will go away in, at most, a month or two.
If top US leadership was less demented, they could secretly "buy" up all of these $-35 May contracts and get paid 35 dollars a barrel to put it in the strategic reserve.

But if such an agreement had been made in Congress and the US was obligated to buy at a certain (positive) price, you can bet the price wouldn't be $-35 right now.
I think one of you are talking futures and the other physical oil. The prices are very disconnected at the moment.
They sold to Conde Nast and the spun out, so probably not, actually!
At the behest of the Chinese government, which means if they want to stay there they have to abide by the local censors. They still have to follow local laws, a foreign presence does not mean they are allowed to report honestly/freely. It's a basic, you follow our rules, and in turn we give you access, trade offs. Same thing happens often in media with reviewers.
I don't like the smell when butter is turned into ghee.

But I love ghee. In fact, after a short stint on a Keto diet, looking at the results, I now understand why ghee is essential in every meal! It makes you consume less carbs.

Because of industry propaganda blaming food fat, we have been used to low fat foods. A spoonful of ghee in every meal is not bad. You just need to get used to it.
i'm using remote dev right this second in pycharm. other than the terminal thing (which is solved by just having ssh open) i don't have any issues.
Perhaps, but only because the PSF wields the Python trademark to prevent people who want to continue releasing the Python 2 language from doing so:

https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon
Given that paper bags have a worse environmental impact than plastic bags, I would suppose cardboard is worse than those plastic containers that are so annoying to open.
I see similarities to the <edit>wikipedia picture</edit> protest in Israel's Tel Aviv main square from yesterday, in terms of social distancing.

https://www.rt.com/news/486269-israel-protest-social-distanc...

And also, I was just having philosophical thoughts about the distribution of power in the world. I wonder if advances in technology will one day create a coalition of super powerful people who will control the world and will make the rest of humanity slaves at best and completely worthless at worst.

I mean, do ethical people naturally gravitate toward power? or does power tend to attract the less empathetic (to put it nicely)?

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I even fear one day we won't be even able to post about this topic.
There are certain groups and entities that have packs of rabid fanboys who mass-downvote critical comments but in my experience China and Chinese people are not one of those groups of HN. There also tends to be a lot more hard evidence when a company genuinely tows the CCP line like Tiktok, and again there's no such thing for HN.
Suffering-Oriented Programming
I'm curious if there's going to be some community supported fork.

Software using Python 2.7 won't magically disappear and I believe there is going to be a demand after fixes.

(I know about Tauthon but I don't think it applies here ...)
Python's open source. Anyone can do security updates. Teams at RedHat, Debian, Oracle, etc, will be doing security updates for many decades I'm sure. You may have to pay.
The best thing about this is the consistency across languages. Whether I am writing Java,C++,Rust, Go,Javascript, the shortcuts are the same with similar behaviour as much as possible. Shift F6 refactors the variable name. Cmd Alt M refactors a method from a chunk of code. Being able to use this muscle memory across languages is fantastic.
> Yes, yes I am. If Jeff Dean moves to India are his commits suddenly worth 10% of what they were when in the Bay Area?

No, but his options have probably changed and negotiating positions have probably shifted. Have you considered that others may view compensation as a negotiation?

It sounds like you're operating from some variant of the labor theory of value and treating this approach as a moral imperative. If value is realized, compensation should be according to value, and nothing else should matter. Is that an accurate summary of your position?

If that's accurate, might I suggest that this position is something an entrepreneur is ideally positioned to use to their advantage? Surely the world is full of excellent software engineers who would jump at the chance to be paid according to their value.
Hopefully you saw Liz's comment.

Raku has a zero cost way to add arbitrary post processing that kicks in no matter where or how a block of code exits.

This provides a general mechanism accessible by arbitrary user defined control flow related constructs.

Raku also ships with a dozen or so built in constructs such as PRE and POST blocks that are the foundational elements for DbC, plus UNDO and KEEP blocks for transactional semantics, and so on.
Surely, if you provide great value to Gitlab you should be smart enough to be happy with a paycut. Rent alone could be $25-40,000/year difference. Commute could be 200-400 hours/year less.

Take the $25K cut and buy a house with a pool.

If your cost of living goes down 25% and your standard of living goes up 25%, wouldn't it be silly of you to be unhappy about a 20% loss of pay?
Ask HN: Failing startup, how to leave?
I am in a complex situation and would like to hear your opinion on how to proceed. I am a cofounder (4 friends from college) of a startup, at first we had great progress with the development of the product (i am one of the hardware developer). We started almost 13 month ago, but till this day we don't have a clear understanding who our customer are or how large the market we target is. When I point out one of these open points(there are many more), I am referred to some google research, which is supposedly completely bulletproof. I think my co-founders are blinded by all those unicorns out there, they think everything is going great and there are only little problems on the way before they get rich. I would like to leave, but I don't want to be the one getting blamed, when the company finally goes bust. How can I handle the situation?
Furthermore, the heads of hospitals are outright saying that they are not seeing any PPE from these "stockpiles".

So it's not going to them!
What I would really like to know is - why did they choose the letters W and K?
> You know where landfill ends up in when not properly sealed?

So then don't do that?

And realistically, are landfills in the US and Europe leaking or not?
> Maybe environmental issues?

Amongst others. It's not enough to just dig a hole in the ground, you have to make sure it doesn't seep into the ground as well. In addition, you have the always present risk of fire...
How long does python upgrading take you? I think Python 3.7 to 3.8 was change my docker version and push to CI... 5 minutes later it told me all tests passed and I deployed to production??
There is already an intellij plugin called Save Actions which does this (import, reformats, and some extra stuff, like adding final to variables wherever possible(optional off course).
Perl 6?
There weren't many before this, either.
One of the popular indicators is number of listings and prices for F-250 class and bigger trucks, especially in places like West Texas and North Dakota.

Of course the automotive market in general is "non-typical" at the moment, so there are probably multiple interpretations to be made of whatever the market status is.
The problem is that high performance builds produce a lot of heat, and those tiny cases do not have enough space to let that be easily extracted with low RPM high diameter fans, so you are going to end up with a pretty box that is going to be pretty noisy, unless you stick to lower power consuming and thus lower heat producing laptop like parts.
Ya, there's no way this is the "final" release. Maybe by the core Python team, but it will be forked to fix bugs. Ten years from now there will still be Python 2 code running critical infrastructure at various companies, and the most responsible path to address discovered issues in the runtime will not be "rewrite the application to work in Python 3!" but "upgrade the interpreter to this community-vetted fork of 2.7.18".

Mumble mumble something about conflating languages with implementations.
> a) Pentesting 3rd party vendors is extremely uncommon. This is something you rely on a SOC2 for.

In my experience this is fairly common? Although that was my experience working on the pen-testing side so I guess it was a little biased. The company I worked for did a lot of this sort of thing – pen-testing for meeting due diligence requirements.
> Everyone needs health care -- cover it.

That is wildly vague. How much coverage is sufficient for your employees?

> Base your wages on the value of the labor, and try to maximize what you pay workers rather than paying the minimum pass the threshold they will accept.

That sounds good, but it’s not very quantitative. How do you specifically propose that someone calculate “value of labor” independently of the wages accepted by your workforce?

Also, how would you ensure I can afford the above-mentioned food and housing? While vacation is nice, food and housing are certainly more immediate needs.
I have received more downvotes than normal for crticising the CCP. Whether that is due to a pro CCP bias or not is up for debate. I talked with dang (mod), and he says it is due to the thread being high profile and contentious, not due to a sitewide pro-CCP bias. Seems like a plausible counter argument.
Opiniones de Azirevpn y mucho mas
> The the DoH wants to step in and redirect until a congressional rep steps in. That's the odd part to me.

Not the DoH, DHS, Homeland Security. Whose oversight of the COVID-19 management is being coordinated with Jared Kushner.

It has been heavily implied, sometimes outright stated, that some of these "redirections" are going to states who are "being nice" to the President.

I would be entirely unsurprised to learn that others are going to "battleground" states (in the election sense, not the disease sense). Or to "government authorized private contractors" for resale (with its own due sense of irony).
A gap year would be great if you could work or travel - but travel is heavily restricted and with the historical record number of layoffs working is effectively killed too. And if you have scholarships in hand that may be rescinded if you don't start this Fall - then what are you to do? Yes, it's less than ideal and maybe your Freshman year is less than ideal. But it's a lot better than having your Sophomore, Junior or Senior years getting hit!
This obviously works really well, but it sounds dehumanizing. I was wondering, is it right to dehumanize for the sake of running things smoothly? Or should it be the case that workers' humanity should be respected, and therefore sacrifice this world-class efficiency? You may think the latter is obviously right, but consider that the transportation system plays a part in powering the activity of civilization, so it's pretty important to have running well, to say the least.

The above is based off of it actually being dehumanizing. Maybe it isn't, and if you think so I want to hear why, but when I imagine seeing it and doing it, it feels very robotic. Imagine doing it for hours every day of every week, and having those around you expect to keep it up..
I find that very surprising that you uncommonly pen test 3rd party vendors. Working at a company that delivers a product to the enterprise, pretty
much every publicly traded company we work with requires us to go through a pen test, or requires that we provide a recent and independent pen test report.

If you rely on SOC2 compliance then you are indirectly requiring a pen test.
How is VC sentiment during the pandemic? My first assumption is that they're more hesitant than usual to invest, but I've heard from peers that some VCs are now working even harder to make sure their most promising companies have the resources to survive past the crisis. Something about lessons learned from the startups that came out of the Great Recession.
I think describing it as porting to a new language is misleading: on most of my projects, most of the work is a few minutes — run modernize/futurize, check the tests, etc. If the original developers were really sloppy about how they handle encoding, it can take longer but most of the problems I've seen have very little to do with Python rather than the fact that something still running Python 2 likely has significant technical debt issues — especially things like not having test coverage which make it a lot harder to ship changes.
Show HN: RSS for Hackers
Then the algorithm would not be acting in the customer's interests.

Presumably this would be after the algo devalued people who clicked on "Next Page" until they came to a page that had stripeless shirts on it, or who, after the search, only ever clicked on stripeless shirts. "Deeds not words," dontchaknow.
Caveat about 2.7: HTTPS switches from default-non-validating to default-validating. If your internal system uses SSL, and you have a bunch of self-signed certs, for example.
Just to hammer down the point: https://www.uscc.gov/sites/default/files/testimonies/SFR%20f...
Perl 6 may be a contender, now so different that it's renamed to Raku.
That was an amazing episode
> I find that very surprising that you uncommonly pen test 3rd party vendors.

Just so we're clear "you" is not Dropbox, and I'm not talking about what Dropbox does or doesn't do. I'm saying that, in general, most companies don't pentest other companies, they ask those companies instead to prove that they do their own pentests, which usually amounts to asking for their SOC2.

> we work with requires us to go through a pen test, or requires that we provide a recent and independent pen test report.

I am stating exactly this. Most companies require proof via SOC2, and that is it. Very few will actually hire a pentest firm directly for a 3rd party vendor.

> If you rely on SOC2 compliance then you are indirectly requiring a pen test.

To quote myself: "This is something you rely on a SOC2 for."
Ha, that's a good name for it. We can go so far in trying to compensate for biases and fallacies that we introduce whole new ones!
EventTriggered Feedback in Control, Estimation, and Optimization
https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon is one candidate. PSF controls the Python trademark, so forks can't actually call themselves Python 2.8.
Ask HN: Stuck on my path to become a programmer
Two years ago I made the switch from writing to programming. I joined a small software company as a php developer. As I hardly new anything, in my first year I grew and learned a lot. It loved it. After that however, I feel like I got stuck. I'm obviously not the best programmer on the team, so the harder stuff is done by those who are, which mostly leaves the smaller (less instructive) jobs to me. As it's a small company, there's no real 'career path' to follow or courses to take, so if I don't take any action, I'll probably be stuck in this position for another 40 years.

Now this situation is partly my fault. I could step up and try to change the situation within my job, but I guess that's not really how I am. I get challenged when people expect things of me that I can't do yet. I get motivated by learning new stuff. But when people have low expectations, I tend to get really comfortable walking the 'safe road'.

Realizing these things was a big step. But now I don't know what to do next. I'm not sure my skills are sufficient for a 'big job'. I think I'd like to start one of those combined jobs/traineeships at a bigger company that offer many more ways of developing your skills and career, but I'm not sure if that's the best choice, being 30 yo with 2 years of experience.

I'd love to hear your advice!
> My guess: The government had enough masks / PPE on paper, but never actually checked it was usable. No one intended this to happen, it just sort of fell through the cracks, and all the paperwork said everything was OK.

No, Republicans in congress very specifically cut the budgets that were supposed to be used to rotate out expired materials. It wasn't accidental, it's a case of refusing to pay the insurance bill and then acting shocked when you're in a car crash.

It also took a big hit from the sequestration, like everything else in the government, but the budget was already underfunded to begin with because DHHS was associated with Obamacare and Republicans wouldn't approve any spending there.

They did the best they could with the money they had and focused on drugs instead of things like masks, which have a harder "cut off" for efficacy and were seen as easier to acquire in the heat of a crisis. But masks eventually have an expiration date too, and if you never rotate them they will eventually go bad too.

https://www.propublica.org/article/us-emergency-medical-stoc...

> After using up the swine flu emergency funds, the Obama administration tried to replenish the stockpile in 2011 by asking Congress to provide $655 million, up from the previous year’s budget of less than $600 million. Responding to swine flu, which the CDC estimated killed more than 12,000 people in the United States over the course of a year, had required the largest deployment in the stockpile’s history, including nearly 20 million pieces of personal protective equipment and more than 85 million N95 masks, according to a 2016 report published by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.

> “We recognized the need for replenishment of the stockpile and budgeted about a 10% increase,” said Dr. Nicole Lurie, who served as the assistant secretary for preparedness and response at the Department of Health and Human Services during the Obama administration. “That was rejected by the Republican House.”

> Republicans took over the House of Representatives in the 2010 midterms on the Tea Party wave of opposition to the landmark 2010 health care reform law, the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. The new House majority was intent on curbing government spending, especially at HHS, which administered Obamacare.

...

> “It just was never funded at the level that was needed to purchase new products, to replace expiring products and to invest in what we now know are the really necessary ancillary products,” said Dara Lieberman, director of government relations at the Trust for America’s Health, a nonpartisan public health advocacy and research group.
Doesn't Civ 6 have native Linux support? Steam says it does.
as a frontend developer, I salute you sir, that shit sounds INSANE.